/*

* Copyright (c) 2007-2008 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:  Implementation for utility class

*

*/

#ifndef MULUTILITY_H_

#define MULUTILITY_H_

#include <stdexcept>

#include <string>

#include <e32cmn.h>

#include <osn/osndefines.h>

#include "mulkeyboardutility.h"

namespace osncore

    {

    class UString;    

    }

using namespace osncore;

namespace Alf

    {

static void MUL_ASSERT(bool aExpression, const char* aExceptionString)

   {

   if( aExpression )

       {

       throw std::logic_error(aExceptionString);

       }

   }

class MulUtility

    {

public:

    /**

     * Converts the relative path to the absolute path.

     * 

     * @param aRelativePath Which needs to be changed to the absolutepath.

     * @return true , if aRelativepath changed to Absoulte path or else false

     */

	OSN_IMPORT static bool AbsolutePath(UString& aRelativePath);

   /**

    * Checks which orienatation the application is in and returns true if it is in 

    * Landscape orientation otherwise returns false

    *

    */ 

  OSN_IMPORT static bool IsLandscape();

     /**

      * Checks if the given string tag is a pool resource or not

      *

      * @param aImageTag Path of the image file,which needs to be checked for resource tag format. 

      */

     OSN_IMPORT static bool IsPoolResource(const UString& aImageTag);

     /**

      * Checks if current KeyBoard is QWERTY

      * @return true if KeyBoard is QWERTY else false.

      */

     OSN_IMPORT static bool IsQwerty();

private: 

    /**

     * Checks the file for its existence

     *

     * @param afilePath File to be checked.

     * @return true, In case file exists or else false. 

     */

    static bool IsFileExists(/*const char* afilePath*/const TDesC& aFilePath);

    };

    } // namespace Alf

#endif  // MULUTILITY_H_

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