Logging Service API - Example Widget Documentation

About this document

This document describes the Logging Widget application for S60 5th Edition SDK. Read this document if you are a web developer, testing professional, or the product manager working on this product. Application Developers looking to log, read events from the event logs using symbian logging Classes.

About this Product

Widgets are lightweight Web applications developed using the same well-known standards-based Web technologies – AJAX, CSS, HTML and JavaScript – used to create Web pages. Developers can use it as a reference and testers can use it to test the relevant functionality. This widget is intended for S60 5.0 SDK. Developers should be able to develop professional applications.

Product intent

Example Widget Application is designed to run on S60 5.0 SDK. It will be designed such that a developer takes it as a reference to create useful applications for any functionality supported on SDK. It will be designed to let the testers to test the functionality

Product limitations

Example widget is not intended to give full featured implementation. This example will implement the Messaging Service APIs. It gives only messaging functionalities. It only lists the Draft messages from the Draft folder.

Specification

The example widget uses the WRT 1.0 API. The Web Runtime (WRT) environment supports the following Internet technology standards:

HTML 4.01
The basic HTML standards are supported.

XHTML 1.0
The basic XHTML standards are supported.

CSS Level 2 revision 1 (CSS 2.1)

JavaScript 1.5 (ECMA-262 3rd Edition)
The standard JavaScript features are supported. The WRT environment also provides some additional features that are mobile device specific.
The following additional JavaScript features are supported in the WRT environment:

• Utilizing the underlying user input features of the mobile device to interact with the user
• Self-updating widgets
• UI navigation using either a cursor or tabs
• Rotating the screen: portrait and landscape orientation
• Launching S60 mobile applications
• Localization framework with automatic detection of the device language settings
• Getting information on physical device functionality and controlling such features.

Example Description

Logging widget gives usability of Logging service APIs with simple user interface. Widget allow user to display/add/delete application logs (Call Log/Messaging Log etc.) with the simple user interface. Application developer can use it to add, read and delete events happening in the system. Keeping the interface simple benefits the application development process greatly.

Use Cases

• Add log (Sync and Async). Create new types of log entries.
• Delete log (Sync and Async). Delete the entries to the event log.
• Display Logs (Sync and Async). Iterating through the Log events list obtained.
  

User Interface

1. Use the file - Open option to open the widget under <Installed-5th-Edition-SDK>\S60WidgetExamples\LoggingWidget.wgz.

2. Go to Application folder and click on the LoggingWidget to start. Once you start the widget, it will ask your application permission to access data.

3. Once your widget is started, you can see the following user ineterface with the list of options.

4. Add log by pressing 'AddLog' or 'AddLogAsyn' button. It will add dummy event to the event log. here in this case, we are adding sms log to the event log.

5. You can view list of logs using 'GetLogList' or 'GetLogListAsync'. It will display logs in following format.

6. Delete log by pressing 'DeleteLog' or 'DeleteLogAsync' button. It will ask you to enter event log id. Enter event log id from the event log list.

Internationalization

Example Widget Application does not support internationalization

References