refreshWidget

[Navier-Stokes]

Hi,

I've composed a custom widget which simply displays a png-Image, that is downloaded by an extra 'getter-flow' and stored in the file system.
Once the image is updated on the file system the widget will not automatically reload the image.
So I extended the 'getter-flow' by a scrip action which executes the latest feature

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refreshWidget("theAppropriateWidgetName", true)

The action runs without errors if the first parameter is the string of the Widget name and the second parameter is a boolean. Therefore I expect the action to make my widget show the newly loaded image.
But it doesn't.

Can anyone give me some advice?

Kind regards

Markus

[Martin]

Hi Markus,

Function refreshWidget with parameter true was created exactly for this purpose and seems to work in my test cases.
Does the getter-flow itself call the refreshWidget or do you refresh the widget from a parent flow that does not wait for the getter-flow to finish? Maybe the refreshWidget-function is called before the image is actually downloaded and stored in the file system.

Could you post the flows or a description of the flows and a the debug log after the widget should have been refreshed?
-turn on Debug log and Log to SD card in the preferences of Automagic
-execute your flows so that the widget should refresh
-on the flow list: menu->Manage->Log, menu->Send Log (send to info@autoamgic4android.com)

Thanks & Regards,
Martin

[Navier-Stokes]

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Does the getter-flow itself call the refreshWidget or do you refresh the widget from a parent flow that does not wait for the getter-flow to finish? Maybe the refreshWidget-function is called before the image is actually downloaded and stored in the file system.
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Hi Martin,

the getter-flow is invoked by a klick action. And I verified its capability.
The getter-flow also performs the

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refreshWidget

.
Manually running the getter-flow actually does refresh the widget. So I recognized the problem which was 'homemade'by myself:
The click action simply triggered the single action "download image" rather than the complete flow.
Now I fixed the problem.

I'm sorry for causing disconvenience.

Thanks for your reply!

Regards

Markus

[Martin]

No problem, I'm glad it works now