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Tutorial on understanding strings in Symbian

Hi! I have Carbide.c++ Developer from Nokia and I want to create applications for my S60 phone. I've looked at the samples that goes with the different SDK's for S60 but I haven't found any simple explanation on how strings, called descriptors, are used in Symbian. One of the problems are that I'm visually impaired and therefore it take...

Symbian C++ - S60 application launches through TRK and Carbide, but not afterwards or when downloaded.

My application has just started exhibiting strange behaviour. I can boot it through the Carbide Debugger (using TRK) and it works fine with no visible errors and is left installed on the device. Any further attempts to launch the application fail, even after a restart. Uninstalling and downloading the .sisx file manually also doesn't w...

S60 application - Symbian C++ - Exit button doesn't work

Hi In my Symbian S60 application, my Options menu works as expected. But the Exit button does nothing. I am developing with Carbide and have used the UI Designer to add items to the options menu. Does anyone know how to enable the exit button, or why else it might not work? Thanks! ...

Carbide / Symbian C++ - Change Application Icon

I am using Carbide (just upgraded to 2.0) to develop an S60 3rd Edition application. I would like to know the easiest way to change the icon (both the application icon on the device menu and the icon at the top left of the main view) because I have the need to skin my application in many different ways as easily as possible. All my eff...

Symbian C++ - Persistent storage of a single variable

Hi I wish to store a single variable in my application that will be saved between runs. This will be a version number that will be used to trigger an update option and so will change only rarely. Does anyone have suggestions on the best way of implementing this? Considering it's such a simple requirement I am interested in the simplest...

Symbian C++ - Load and display image from .mbm file

I have a .mbm file that I copy to my device using this line in the .pkg file "$(EPOCROOT)epoc32\data\z\resource\apps\MyApp.mbm" -"!:\resource\apps\MyApp.mbm" Then in the draw function of my container I do this.. _LIT(KMBMFile , "\\resource\\apps\\MyApp.mbm" ); CFbsBitmap* iBitmap; iBitmap->Load(KMBMFile, 0); gc.BitBlt(Rect().iTl, iB...

Symbian C++ - Remove or hide component (ie. CEikLabel)

Hi, Seemingly a simple enough question, but I cannot work it out. I want to hide a CEikLabel at a certain point. I want a function like.. myLabel->SetVisible(EFalse); or.. myLabel->RemoveFromView(); I realise I could just use myLabel->SetTextL(_L("")); but that is not what I want to do. Thanks :) ...

Subversion on carbide

Hi, I am using carbide for symbian developement there is plugins called subclipse but the issue is when i go to option of find and install under software updates the IDE gets hungs is there any other way to add plugins in carbide IDE Thnx in advance, Any help would be appreciated. ...

Carbide.c++ 1.2.2 not displaying SDK S60 2nd Edition CW templates

I downloaded Carbide.c++ 1.2 and also downloaded the SDK S60 2nd Edition CW. I installed the SDK and it is recognized in the Window->Preferences->Carbide C++->SDK preferences. but when I try to create a new project, the templates related to the SDK aren't displayed. and the editor seems not to detect the SDK. has anyone ever experienc...

Issues with build in Carbide C++ 2.0

I'm building my application and when I try to run it on the emulator, I get this error. Creation Time Description Resource Path Location Type 1254339868582 BLDMAKE ERROR: Directory "\S60\devices\Nokia_N97_SDK_v1.0\epoc32\" does not exist ZeFirst Unknown C/C++ Problem The folder does exist and does have the necessary rights. The ...

Carbide does not include debugging info for some files

In Carbide 2.0.2, if I set active configuration to be "Phone Debug GCCE", build the project, go to Debug perspective, choose "Executables" tab, and select the executable file, Source File Name/Location window will list all the files I am able to use while debugging. The problem is that the list does not contain all files from the projec...

arm-none-symbianelf-ld throwing "No Such File or Directory" error looking for file [...].GCCE.UREL.objects.via when building project

Im using Carbide C++ 2.3.0 to build a Flash Stub project with S60)5th_Edition_SDK-v1.0 Phone Release (GCCE) set as build configuration. I have installed Perl and JRE and the CSL toolchain (GCCE), and Ive manually updated the Windows PATH variable to point to GCCE/bin. When I create my project according to - this article and click build ...

"Automatically indent" in Carbide.c++ 2.4.0

After moving from Carbide.c++ 2.0.2 to Carbide.c++ 2.4.0 (it is 2.3.0 + update) and moving my Code Style profile, "Code style" preferences are not applied while typing in one particular case, and it is related to indent position after conditionals. My code style profile says the conditional should look like this: if (x > 3) { ...

Symbian-Carbide: Can't update 2.3.0 to 2.5.0

Just installed the SDK and ADK. while updating, it gives the following error: "unexpected end of zlib input stream" a dozen times. ...

How to make the eclipse IDE to build faster

Hi all.. i am using Eclipse IDE for developmental purpose, IDE is taking too much time to build, it gets hangs up, when the percentage of Build reaches to 78. it shows refreshing workspace several times.. it eats up lots of time.. please tell me how to make it to disable the unwanted "refreshing workspace" and other time consuming acti...

[symbian Qt] phoneGap files not found in QT-creator

Hi, i'm new to Qt, i just install all in one QT-SDK beta with QT-creator as described here. I tried to import PhoneGap example files from there (I use Qt-creator coz when I try to do it on Carbide, as described, it said that my EPOCROOT is wrong, but it isn't). When I want to debug or run project it said that there are some files missing...

XML parsing error on symbian s60

Hi! I have a problem with Carbide C++. I'm trying to use function from Nokia Forum to read xml files. So I found this article: http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/How_to_parse_XML_file_using_CParser_class and I've created a XmlHandle.h and XmlHandle.cpp files. But I don't know how I can use this. I try something like this: _LIT( KCon...

How to switch view in Symbian C++?

Hi! I'm just trying to switch between Test1View and Test2View on Symbian S60 3rd FP2 edition in Symbian C++ language. I have some components on both of them, but Test2 is for another operations than Test1, so I need to switch it to Test2. I read on Nokia Forum about it, but I cannot find working code. Can somebody tell me how I can do th...

Reading from XML file using XmlHandler class from Forum Nokia - Symbian C++

Hi! I'm trying to use XmlHandler class ( link to Forum Nokia with code of XmlHandler Class ) on Symbian S60 3rd FP2 edition to read xml files. I have in my function this code: CXmlHandler *iXmlHandler; TFileName fileName; iXmlHandler = CXmlHandler::NewL(); fileName.Append( KConfigFile ); iXmlHandler->StartParsingWithAoL( fileName ); ...

How to compile for S60 2nd Edition in Carbide 2.3

Im using carbide 2.3 to develop an application for 3rd and 5th editions of S60. Now my customer also wants to make the application compatible for 2nd edtion. I have downloaded and installed CW 2nd edition S60 SDK. But carbide 2.3 doesnt provide any template to create application for 2nd edition. How do i proceed??? ...