[maemo-developers] How to block the camera app from starting on lens cover open

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Martin Storsjö wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jul 2010, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
>> On ven., 2010-07-23 at 19:20 +0300, Martin Storsjö wrote:
>>> Any hints on how to solve this in the best way? I don't want my app to 
>>> fail in the next QA round with the reason "camera app is launched and 
>>> closes immediately if the lens cover is opened while your app is running". 
>> Did you check how fcamera is doing it?
> 
> Thanks for the pointer!
> 
> It seems that the FCam library kills camera-ui using dsmetool - which 
> totally makes sense for an application that tries to grab the camera 
> button for itself, too.

And what happens in the application crashes without restoring camera-ui,
user needs to reboot to get camera working again?


	- Eero

(better may be a small wrapper / watchdog for the process that does
the camera-ui removal before launching the program and restores it
after the program terminates?)