[maemo-developers] Optimal battery life considerations in apps

[From: Kimmo Hämäläinen]

On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 12:09 +0200, ext Andrew Flegg wrote:
> 2009/7/24 Kimmo Hämäläinen <kimmo.hamalainen at nokia.com>:
> > On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 10:54 +0200, ext Andrew Flegg wrote:
> >
> >> My basic code structure is:
> >>
> >>     * while timer fires:
> >>           - check is-topmost
> >>                 - if false, cancel timer and return
> >
> > Probably Python bindings are confused then. You don't need any timers to
> > use it.
> 
> I'm using the timer because I want to be showing an animation. Should
> I be able to register property-notify-event against a HildonWindow and
> get a notification when the is-topmost property which libhildon's
> tracking changes?

Yes, at least if you are coding in C, you get the property notification.

> If so, I'll create a small test case and create a PyMaemo bug (to go
> with #4782).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Andrew
>