Buttons Settings Specification
The Buttons Settings application allows customization of the device's
hardware buttons.
The Buttons Settings application links applications, settings programs and
games installed on the device to hardware buttons on the device.
Status: RT
Use Cases
- Favorite Game
A user plays SuperGame 2000 but does not use the email client.
By using the Button Settings, they can
change the operation associated with the "email" hardware button
to launch the game.
- Quick Beam
By default, pressing and holding the Contacts button will cause the
user's businesscard to be beamed. The user can change this to instead
create a new contact.
Features
- Invoke program: Any application, game or setting can be mapped to any
available hardware button.
- Invoke service action: Any service action which takes no parameters and
which has a Name is presented as an option for the hardware buttons.
- Press-and-hold: the "press" action and the "press and hold" action can
be set independently.
- Device-specific button images: the images used for buttons are defined
by device-specific image files.
- Device-specific default buttons: the default service actions for each
button are defined by device-specific code.
Prerequisites
- Hardware: Device must have hardware buttons.