/*

* Copyright (c) 2006-2008 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).

* All rights reserved.

* This component and the accompanying materials are made available

* under the terms of "Eclipse Public License v1.0"

* which accompanies this distribution, and is available

* at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".

*

* Initial Contributors:

* Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.

*

* Contributors:

*

* Description:  This class provide API to read resource from resource file

*

*/

#ifndef CMPXRESOURCE_H

#define CMPXRESOURCE_H

//INCLUDES

#include <e32base.h>

#include <badesca.h>

#include <barsc.h>

// CLASS DECLARATION

/**

*  Resource class

*  Singleton for one thread

*/

class CMPXResource : public CBase

    {

    public: // Factory and Release

        /**

        * Factory function, create the object.

        * Note that calls to this must be matched with a call to Release().

        *

        * @param aResourceFile the resource file

        *        In order to support installation of individual plugin.

        *        aResourceFile must be a final name, including full file path.

        *        All parse should be done in the plugin side.

        *

        * @return the resource object pointer

        */

        static CMPXResource* NewL(const TDesC& aResourceFile);

        /**

        * Factory function, create the object.

        * Note that calls to this must be matched with a call to Release().

        * @param aResourceFile the resource file

        *        In order to support installation of individual plugin.

        *        aResourceFile must be a final name, including full file path.

        *        All parse should be done in the plugin side.

        *

        * @return the resource object pointer

        */

        static CMPXResource* NewLC(const TDesC& aResourceFile);

        /**

        * Decrements the reference count, and delete the object if it is 0

        */

        IMPORT_C void Release();

    public: // New functions

        /**

        * Read array of descriptors

        * @param aResourceId resource id

        * @return array of descriptors. Ownership is abandoned.

        */

        CDesCArrayFlat* ReadDesCArrayL(TInt aResourceId);

        /**

        * Read array of descriptors

        * @param aResourceId resource id

        * @return array of descriptors. Ownership is abandoned.

        */

        CDesCArrayFlat* ReadDesCArrayLC(TInt aResourceId);

        /**

        * Get a heap descriptor from the resource file

        * @param aResourceId resource id

        * @return pointer to the heap descriptor.  Ownership is abandoned.

        */

        HBufC* ReadHBufCL(TInt aResourceId);

        /**

        * Read array of menu items

        * @param aResourceId resource id

        * @param aIdArray array of Id within the specified resource

        * @return array of descriptors

        */

        CDesCArrayFlat* ReadMenuArrayL(TInt aResourceId, RArray<TInt>& aIdArray);

        /**

        * Read array of menu items

        * @param aResourceId resource id

        * @param aIdArray array of Id within the specified resource

        * @return array of descriptors

        */

        CDesCArrayFlat* ReadMenuArrayLC(TInt aResourceId, RArray<TInt>& aIdArray);

    private:

        /**

        * C++ constructor.

        */

        CMPXResource();

        /**

        * By default Symbian 2nd phase constructor is private.

        */

        void ConstructL(const TDesC& aResourceFile);

        /**

        * Don't allow users to delete this object

        * Release has to be called

        */

        virtual ~CMPXResource();

    private: // Data

        // Member variables

        RFs               iFs;

        RResourceFile     iResourceFile;

    };

#endif // CMPXRESOURCE_H

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