WatchUi key constant to open music player

Hi,

what is the key constant for shortcut of opening music player? Documentation of Toybox::WatchUi is not updated in this respect. Thanks Jan

jim_m_58 over 7 years ago

You mean so you can open it from a delegate in a CIQ app? Or to block opening it? There's no way to do that.

Jan Čapek over 7 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Block it. In one case, I want to block optimally everything triggered by long-press of arrow buttons.

flowstate over 7 years ago in reply to Jan Čapek

Not only can you not block long presses, in many cases you cannot even detect long presses. I learned this the hard way.

I’m pretty sure you can’t block system-level shortcuts (like hold LIGHT for shortcuts) or configurable hotkeys (Fenix 5, 935). And if you could, users wouldn’t like it anyway, and it would cause problems for some of the important shortcuts.

Some other examples of long presses that can’t be detected/blocked:

- VA3 button (widgets can’t even detect short press)

- Any long press on 230/235/630/920XT

- Long press of either button on VAHR

I’m sure I’m missing a few....

jim_m_58 over 7 years ago in reply to Jan Čapek

This is handled by the FW before CIQ is even involved. There's no way to block it.

Jan Čapek over 7 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Well, shortcut to go back to clock (from the app) can be blocked, so I expected there should be the way to do it also for other shortcuts as they should be technically same.

jim_m_58 over 7 years ago in reply to Jan Čapek

Actually, accessing the widget loop while in a CIQ device app is blocked by default on many devices.

Manasovo over 5 years ago

do you have any news about this trouble ? Thanks a lot

jim_m_58 over 5 years ago in reply to Manasovo

It's not trouble. It's by design. You really don't want to try detecting your own long presses.

Manasovo over 5 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

i not need to dedect long presses ... Garmin do a great job with this :-) I Just want to map all key presses in my APP to my functionality. For example LONG PRESS DOWN i don't want to open Music Player.

For the Fenix i have a not programming HACK by Settings - Hot Keys - Hold BACK and set Watch Face in menu list. Then my APP works. But for example Forerunner don't have this options :-(

jim_m_58 over 5 years ago in reply to Manasovo

You don't to block the FW functionality for things like hot keys, as users expect the hot keys do what they set them to do. On many devices, long press up is "menu", on others like the va4/venu, that's a long press of back. On the va4/venu, long press of the top button is controls, and a longer press is to send a request for assistance.