Creating a launcher for a webapp in WRT

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ID		Creation date	October 5, 2009
Platform	S60 5th Edition	Tested on devices	Nokia N97
Category	Web Runtime (WRT)	Subcategory	UI

Keywords (APIs, classes, methods, functions): window.location

Overview

If you have created a web application and want to make it a mobile application, probably the simplest way to accomplish this is to create a launcher for your webapp using WRT. This snippet shows you how to do this.

Source: HTML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
        <title>WRT Stub</title>
    </head>
    <body>
    </body>
 
    <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
        // Ensure that the softkeys are shown even though by default they
        // should be
        window.menu.showSoftkeys();
 
        // Launch the web application
        location.href = "http://url.to.your.webapp";        
    </script>
</html>

Postconditions

The web application is launched from WRT.

Supplementary material

This code snippet is part of the stub concept, which means that it has been patched on top of a template application in order to be more useful for developers. The version of the WRT stub application used as a template in this snippet is v1.2.

The patched, executable application that can be used to test the features described in this snippet is available for download at Media:wrt_launcher.zip.
You can view all the changes that are required to implement the above-mentioned features. The changes are provided in unified diff and colour-coded diff (HTML) formats in Media:wrt_launcher.diff.zip.
For general information on applying the patch, see Using Diffs.
For unpatched stub applications, see Example stub.

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