Prevent Start Menu, Camera button from tombstoning WP7 Application - windows-phone-7

I have a WP7 application that I've disabled the idle capabilities of the phone with such as:
PhoneApplicationService.Current.UserIdleDetectionMode = IdleDetectionMode.Disabled;
PhoneApplicationService.Current.ApplicationIdleDetectionMode =
IdleDetectionMode.Disabled;
However, the camera button and start menu still pause the application and resume it afterwards. I want the app to run regardless of these buttons being pushed. How can I prevent these buttons from tombstoning the app?

Tombstoning always occurs if the user presses the windows key or camera button. The code you've shown ensures that your app will continue to run under a lock screen, not if it will run when your app is tombstoned. In the current version (7.0), there is no multitasking for third parties, whereas Mango (7.1) allows for some more freedom with respect to multitasking.
Presumably this app is targetted at 7.0, so your app will be tombstoned and you will have to handle it. There is no way of having your app continue running in the background.
On a side note, you'll still have to handle tombstoning in Mango as well, but you do get more abilities to run your app in the background.

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Windows-10-IOT QT-C++/QML App Fullscreen Gui Frozen when monitor turns back on

ISSUE:
On a touch panel with no keyboard, my QT C++/QML app running on Windows 10 IOT has the fullscreen GUI "frozen", when the monitor turns on (after the user has triggered the touchscreen), after it has timed-out earlier and turned off due to power settings. Mouse cursor still updates.
The QML GUI has "flags: Qt.FramelessWindowHint | Qt.Window"; I do not want to add "Qt.WindowStaysOnTopHint" as it will block the control panel window when it is open from the app. The program is verified to be still running, only the GUI has frozen from the point in time when the screen turned off.
TEMPORARY RESOLUTION:
The only way to "unfreeze" the fullscreen GUI is to connect a keyboard & press the Windows key to show-hide the start menu, or do it programmatically with a manual QML button placed at a known position or on detection of monitor WM_POWERBROADCAST messages.
When the app is not fullscreen, the freezing doesn't seem to be happening.
Is this due to some missing WM_MESSAGES (e.g. WM_PAINT, WM_ACTIVATE, etc) sent by the OS to the app when it is fullscreen, or when the start menu button is pressed?
Can the app-fullscreen-freezing on monitor-turn-back-on be rectified by the app programmatically sending a sequence of WM_MESSAGES to itself, but not the Win button keypress (as the normal user is not supposed to access the OS or see anything related to the OS when the app is running)?
I tried using winAPI SetForegroundWindow() function...?
:-( Fast forward a few days...
With further testing, it seems that using SetForegroundWindow() alone is not consistent/reliable. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
The most reliable that works 99.999% of the time is still the VK_LWIN keypress sent by the app. But, as mentioned before, the app user is not supposed to see the start-menu appearing then disappearing. Best if the behavior of the VK_LWIN keypress could be duplicated to the app without seeing the start-menu...

OS X run system application with GUI over all others including fullscreen apps

I'm trying to write an accessibility app based on a "no-click" mouse concept. The idea is to capture mouse gestures that will be interpreted as clicks and pass the events to other apps. I have most of it working, except that I don't know how I could run it on top of fullscreen apps post Lion. Right now the app window is transparent and follows the mouse around, but this approach won't work with other "Desktops" or full screen apps, as the app stays in its current desktop when switching.
Any ideas?
What I needed was to call
[self setCollectionBehavior: NSWindowCollectionBehaviorCanJoinAllSpaces | NSWindowCollectionBehaviorFullScreenAuxiliary];
and also (important for the fullscreen apps!) set Application is agent (UIElement) to true in the info.plist file.

app is killed after click on windows button

I am developing an windows runtime app for phone.
I just wondering why my app is killed after I clicked windows button? According to msdn it says app will just be suspended, what implementation do I need to keep is suspended and when user click on back button on hardware, it will stay there.

How to make a fixed Toast notification

I'm new to Windows Phone development and I've found something about background agents in WP 7.5:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wpapps/CSWP7ScheduledTaskAgent-6450bcf1
I wasn't able to find a way of making the toast notification fixed, I mean, when it appears on the screen it should disappear.
Is there any way of doing this? any advices, documentation should be great.
Thanks.
Toast Notification by the OS
When a toast notification is created, the OS handles the amount of time it is displayed for...
A toast notification displays for about 10 seconds unless the user
dismisses it with a flick to the right. If the user taps the toast, by
default, your app's start screen launches. Or, you can choose to
specify which screen of your app will launch.
Taken from the official documentation.
The API for toast notifications does not allow you to specify a time. Only a title, content and deep link into your app. This is the only type of toast/notification that can be used by a Background Agent. But it will appear:
on the Start screen
when your app is being used
when any other app is being used.
Custom toast-like notification (eg. Coding4Fun Toolkit's Toast Prompt)
A custom toast notification, although more flexible, must obey all the system rules unlike the system's Toast Notification which has special permissions.
This means the Coding4Fun Toolkit's Toast Prompt cannot:
Display notifications when your app is not running (apps cannot run in the background, they are essentially paused)
Display notifications when the user is on the Start screen or not using your app
Having a permanently (or long) displaying toast notification would be annoying to the user (hence the 10 second limit by the OS version) so do think carefully about why you need it - is the System Tray or MessageBox a better idea?
If you're new to Windows Phone, I would recommend using a handset for a while to get the feel for how the system works and how other apps use all kinds of notifications.

Possible to tell if NSApplicationActivationPolicyProhibited application is active?

Using JUCE with TUIO, I'm developing a multi-touch utility to send "hot keys" commands to other applications (I am using a usb touch frame that sends TUIO messages). For instance, I provide an interface through which users can touch-and-hold to program a key combo and then tap that button to send the programmed key combo to another app. They way I accomplish this on OSX is by running my utility as a "background only" application (NSApplicationActivationPolicyProhibited). I use [NSWindow setCanHide: NO] so the GUI of my utility is visible even though it runs as a background app.
It works well except in the case that a window from another application is on top of mine. What happens is that touches get passed through that other app into mine- causing unintentional button pushes in my app. Normally, I could have my app only listen to the TUIO touch callback whenever is is the active application, [NSApp isActive]. But, since my app is background only, it is never active and I have no way to tell if another window is covering it to prevent touches.
So, is there any way for a "background only" app to be able to tell if it is on top of all other windows? Or, is there a way from within my app to get a list of all Cocoa windows from other applications and be able to tell if they are appearing on top of my "background only" app?
Also, does anyone know how I would go about all of the above in Windows? In other words, what is the Windows equivalent of NSApplicationActivationPolicyProhibited and would I be able to tell if it is covered by other applications' windows?

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