[maemo-developers] Optimal battery life considerations in apps

[From: Thomas Perl]

2009/7/10 Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org>:
> Have you got any sample code which uses window-state-event I could use
> as a basis for comparison?

See the function window_state_event at:

http://repo.or.cz/w/gpodder.git?a=blob;f=src/gpodder/gui.py;h=9b0d0bef53;hb=HEAD#l3323

In a more isolated and to-the-point way, you could write that code
like this (in Python):

fullscreen = bool(event.new_window_state & gtk.gdk.WINDOW_STATE_FULLSCREEN)
if RUNNING_ON_MAEMO:
    minimized = bool(event.new_window_state & gtk.gdk.WINDOW_STATE_WITHDRAWN)
else:
    minimized = bool(event.new_window_state & gtk.gdk.WINDOW_STATE_ICONIFIED)

The last time I checked, this worked, except that on Maemo 4 you get
the "withdrawn" state and on the Desktop the "iconified" state (which
the code above accounts for).


HTH.
thp