Activity Object - using in Service or Widget?

[cmweb]

Hello all,

what can I do if I need informations provided by activity objects within a service or a widget?

Example:

I need a reflector to retreive following information:

uptime = Obj1.RunStaticMethod("android.os.SystemClock", "uptimeMillis", Null, Null)
elrealtime = Obj1.RunStaticMethod("android.os.SystemClock","elapsedRealtime", Null, Null)

where Obj1 is a reflector.

That does not work, as the a reflector is an activity object.

Is there any solution that allows me to get such data from within a service or a widget?

Thanks for your help.

Best regards,

Carsten

 

[agraham]

Reflector is not an Activity object since version 1.6.

 

[cmweb]

I did use version 1.9.

Now I upgraded to version 2.2 but still getting this error message:

Compiling code.                         Error
Error compiling program.
Error description: Process object is expected. {Type=Object,Rank=0} is an Activity object.
Declaring the variable in Sub Globals instead of Sub Process_Globals will solve this problem.
Occurred on line: 75
uptime = obj1.RunStaticMethod("android.os.SystemClock", "uptimeMillis", Null, Null)
Word: null

Any ideas?

Best regards,

Carsten

 

[agraham]

It's a false error from the compiler relating to the use of null that Erel will need to check.

This works fine when a Reflector is Dimmed in either Globals or Process_Globals

Dim uptime, elrealtime As Long
Dim args(0) As Object
Dim types(0) As String
uptime = Obj1.RunStaticMethod("android.os.SystemClock", "uptimeMillis", args, types)
elrealtime = Obj1.RunStaticMethod("android.os.SystemClock","elapsedRealtime", args, types)
Msgbox(uptime, elrealtime)

This works when a Reflector is Dimmed in Globals but gives the compiler error when a Reflector is Dimmed in Process_Globals.

Dim uptime, elrealtime As Long
uptime = Obj1.RunStaticMethod("android.os.SystemClock", "uptimeMillis", Null, Null)
elrealtime = Obj1.RunStaticMethod("android.os.SystemClock","elapsedRealtime", Null, Null)
Msgbox(uptime, elrealtime)

 

[cmweb]

Thanks a lot!!!

That works perfectly now.

Best regards,

Carsten

 

[shaxboz]

Hi! I have also like that problem! How can I access to activity object from sub process_globals.
I want to use camera flash from my widget
I am writing Dim mycam As AdvancedCamera, but there is error Cannot access to activity object from process_globals, but there is nor "sub globals" what should I do?

 

[Erel]

You cannot use Activity objects from services. There is a technical reason for that. It will cause a memory leak.