Home button event in HTC Smart, delivered to my own app?

Question

I want to get an event to my application when someone presses the Home button:

^{(The silvery button with an arrow pointing left is the Home Button on the HTC Smart.)}

However, when I press the button, no event at all arrives to my app. If I connect the system logger, I see that the Brew MP OS itself detects something, but it does not arrive to my app.

[CORE] CoreDaemon_HandleEvent: 111
[CORE] CoreDaemon_HandleEvent: 112

Can I register with these events so the OS passes them on to me? (Or whatever it takes to detect the home button in my app.)

I suspect the [ISHELL_RegisterNotify][2] function may be what I am looking for, but I don't know how to use it. I tried:

ISHELL_RegisterNotify(piShell, AEECLSID_OF_MY_APP, AEECLSID_CORE, NMASK_SHELL_KEY |(NOTIFIER_VAL_ANY << 16));

That didn't work, neither this:

ISHELL_RegisterNotify(piShell, AEECLSID_OF_MY_APP, AEECLSID_CORE, ~0);

I kind of hoped that last one would get me all "core" events, but neither of those two made any difference at all.

Answer 1

The app will first receive an EVT_KEY with wParam=63620 and then immediately get the EVT_APP_SUSPEND event.

Hence, as far as I understand, the "Home Button" can not be used in any meaningful way by Brew applications for input.