How do you refresh homescreen FROM homescreen after update

[Guest mvsmith07]

Is it possible to refresh the homescreen while you're on the homescreen after updating the XML or JPG files? At the moment I'm having to go back to Settings...Homescreen and change the colour scheme to force the homescreen to refresh.

[Guest XRay]

Only two ways that I know are: 1. Change to another homescreen, then change back; or 2. Power cycle the phone.

[Guest statscat]

or if you are using the SDK, you can kill home.exe

[Guest Taoski]

Kill home.exe eh?

Surely someone could write this as a little app? Must be well easy!

It might make the homescreen stuff a little easier to test.

[Guest statscat]

Kill home.exe eh?

Surely someone could write this as a little app?  Must be well easy!

It might make the http://smartphone.MoDaCo.com/viewtopic.php?t=714>homescreen stuff a little easier to test.

Yeah if you use the process viewer in the sdk you can stop the home.exe process (kill it) and then 99% of the time it restarts when you copy over your dll etc or layour changes.

[Guest Taoski]

But could'nt this be setup as an application to run on the smartphone?

Surely it must be able to.... surely....

[Guest Taoski]

I have been messing (when i should have been working :? ) to see if i can get this working easily.

I am using RAPI_Start and CEcopy which are part of the Windows Mobile Powertools 2003.

I have created a little dos batch file which basically does this:

RAPI_start killproc.exe home.exe (this kills the home.exe process on the phone)

CEcopy /is "c:taoski.home.xml" "dev:IPSMApplication datahome" (this copies the updated homescreen XML file to the phone)

And then the home.exe should startup... it does not allways do this though and sometimes requires a coldboot to get it working. But when it does restart ok - the old homescreen is still displayed.

I have also tried using the RAPI_Start home.exe which also works if the home.exe does not restart itself - but does not start with the new homescreen layout.

You can stop/start the home.exe process ok but it loads with the same file as before. - eg:

RAPI_Start killproc.exe home.exe

RAPI_Start home.exe

Has this got something to do with the home0.hif files perhaps?

I tried to copy on a blank (0kb) file to see if this would force it to overwrite ... but it did'nt work either.

It seems so possible to get this working.

Sometimes i get dropped into a screen where i cannot get back to the homescreen at all and have to reboot - or i get a page with

No home screen layouts can be found. Install a valid home screen layout and then select it using Home Screen item in Settings.

Also, the Killproc.exe home.exe command does not always work - until i use the RemoteDSP to view the screen.... odd.

Any thoughts from any Guru types would be cool.