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<concept id="GUID-52583CC7-483E-54B5-8094-F0F61BD46B7F" xml:lang="en"><title>Configuration:

Attribute Definition Files</title><shortdesc>Describes the format of configuration files</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>

<p>The attributes that can be used on a device are defined in two configuration

files. . </p>

<section id="GUID-8648B87A-B712-5458-850A-FDF318669FE3"><title>Config.hcf

file</title> <p>The purpose of this file, <filepath>config.hcf</filepath>,

is to define the <xref href="GUID-9AE254D4-AA60-579E-8D9D-F2797106A413.dita#GUID-9AE254D4-AA60-579E-8D9D-F2797106A413/GUID-174A663C-3943-5D36-B507-D97A687C168C">attributes</xref> that

have meaning on this hardware. It specifies whether attributes: </p> <ul>

<li id="GUID-F47EC58A-2E93-5D57-ADD8-F2D7B440F555"><p>are read-only </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-F8BEB68C-3D90-5517-80D5-AC7B2EA6FDEC"><p>can be read and written </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-9FFE7AE2-32FF-5B30-8458-728A08F5EBC7"><p>are simply stored by

the HAL - the non-derived attributes </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-BE8EB94D-ED03-5066-A8AE-DC0294A828D9"><p>require calls to other

components to obtain or set their values - the derived attributes. </p> </li>

</ul> <p>The file must be created in the <filepath>...\Variant\hal\...</filepath> directory. </p> <p>Note

that: </p> <ul>

<li id="GUID-46D60900-655F-5DEC-AED2-5AC7F3D5C32A"><p> <i>all</i> supported

attributes must have an entry in the Config file <filepath>config.hcf</filepath>  </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-0A474EFD-E146-5D65-AD22-54FE50FA7E68"><p> <i>all</i> non-derived

attributes also need an entry in <xref href="GUID-52583CC7-483E-54B5-8094-F0F61BD46B7F.dita#GUID-52583CC7-483E-54B5-8094-F0F61BD46B7F/GUID-3514023A-9CB6-578F-9928-FD0971B81BEF">the

Values file</xref> <filepath>values.hda</filepath>. </p> </li>

</ul> <p>The build system uses the Perl script <filepath>halcfg.pl</filepath> to

convert text information in the Config file into a C++ source file before

the C++ compiler is invoked. The generated binary maps to the data members

defined in the <codeph>HalInternal</codeph> class. <i>Note that this class

is internal to Symbian</i>. </p> <p>After initial implementation, any changes

to the files will be picked up by the supplied makefile, <filepath>...\hal\config.mke</filepath>.

The necessary changes are made to the generated <filepath>config.cpp</filepath> file

when the HAL is built. </p> <p>Any additional functions must be added to the

implementation file by hand, e.g. in a file called <filepath>imp.cpp</filepath>.

However, this would be unusual because all likely functions are already implemented

in <filepath>...\hal\src\userhal.cpp</filepath>. </p> <p>The config file consists

of a number of lines of text in the form: </p> <codeblock id="GUID-837B7F2C-E2CB-5DB6-97D5-AA009C335DA7" xml:space="preserve">&lt;attrib&gt; [:&lt;prop1&gt;, &lt;prop2&gt;, ...] = &lt;implementation&gt;</codeblock> <p>where the pair of square brackets indicates optional items. </p> <p><b>&lt;attrib&gt;</b> </p> <p>This is one of the values of the enumeration <xref href="GUID-8BE90160-2C60-3582-82C8-4A108C7C0317.dita#GUID-8BE90160-2C60-3582-82C8-4A108C7C0317/GUID-1959915A-BA99-3F94-AFD4-FD1AA540BFBF"><apiname>HALData::TAttribute</apiname></xref> in

the source file <filepath>...\hal\inc\hal_data.h</filepath>  </p> <p><b>&lt;prop1&gt;, &lt;prop2&gt;,...</b> </p> <p>These are optional property specifications

defined by the enumeration <xref href="GUID-8BE90160-2C60-3582-82C8-4A108C7C0317.dita#GUID-8BE90160-2C60-3582-82C8-4A108C7C0317/GUID-F1E5A60F-FB3C-387A-9055-BC5478ADB815"><apiname>HALData::TAttributeProperty</apiname></xref> in

the source file <filepath>...\hal\inc\hal_data.h</filepath>. Where more than

one property is specified, they are separated by commas. If specified, the

initial colon is required. Currently, only the two properties <xref href="GUID-59379CFA-F4FD-36B0-855F-A9528B3458B4.dita"><apiname>EValid</apiname></xref> and <xref href="GUID-490A3E37-17DB-3702-9E8C-FD3F555A3080.dita"><apiname>ESettable</apiname></xref> are

defined. Note that any substring which is not ambiguous within the enumerated

type is acceptable; matching is not case sensitive. </p> <p>The property <xref href="GUID-59379CFA-F4FD-36B0-855F-A9528B3458B4.dita"><apiname>EValid</apiname></xref> is

defined implicitly for all attributes that appear in the Config file. It indicates

that the attribute is meaningful on this platform. Attributes that do not

appear in the Config file do not have this property, and calls to <xref href="GUID-BD00E7FC-C234-3111-87A5-10F79EB0F2B8.dita#GUID-BD00E7FC-C234-3111-87A5-10F79EB0F2B8/GUID-573C49D6-7763-37AE-B2B2-4C8FB1327E21"><apiname>HAL::Get()</apiname></xref> or <xref href="GUID-BD00E7FC-C234-3111-87A5-10F79EB0F2B8.dita#GUID-BD00E7FC-C234-3111-87A5-10F79EB0F2B8/GUID-9454F1B2-D525-3D6D-A872-C6457CACD4FC"><apiname>HAL::Set()</apiname></xref> which

refer to those attributes return <xref href="GUID-F89DA3F0-2A48-3F9B-8F08-29350E92D0E4.dita"><apiname>KErrNotSupported</apiname></xref>. </p> <p>The

property <xref href="GUID-490A3E37-17DB-3702-9E8C-FD3F555A3080.dita"><apiname>ESettable</apiname></xref>, means that an attribute is modifiable.

Calls to <xref href="GUID-BD00E7FC-C234-3111-87A5-10F79EB0F2B8.dita#GUID-BD00E7FC-C234-3111-87A5-10F79EB0F2B8/GUID-9454F1B2-D525-3D6D-A872-C6457CACD4FC"><apiname>HAL::Set()</apiname></xref> for attributes without this property

return <xref href="GUID-F89DA3F0-2A48-3F9B-8F08-29350E92D0E4.dita"><apiname>KErrNotSupported</apiname></xref>. </p> <p><b>&lt;implementation&gt;</b> </p> <p>Defines whether an <xref href="GUID-9AE254D4-AA60-579E-8D9D-F2797106A413.dita#GUID-9AE254D4-AA60-579E-8D9D-F2797106A413/GUID-174A663C-3943-5D36-B507-D97A687C168C">attribute</xref> is derived. It can be: </p> <ul>

<li id="GUID-F9FE0364-512E-5348-B50D-041DD54DD5F3"><p>0, which means that

the specified attribute is not derived, but is just a constant stored by the

HAL. </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-C078572B-3E53-571E-8B2F-04516D3D7C9D"><p>the name of a function

used to implement <xref href="GUID-BD00E7FC-C234-3111-87A5-10F79EB0F2B8.dita#GUID-BD00E7FC-C234-3111-87A5-10F79EB0F2B8/GUID-573C49D6-7763-37AE-B2B2-4C8FB1327E21"><apiname>HAL::Get()</apiname></xref> and <xref href="GUID-BD00E7FC-C234-3111-87A5-10F79EB0F2B8.dita#GUID-BD00E7FC-C234-3111-87A5-10F79EB0F2B8/GUID-9454F1B2-D525-3D6D-A872-C6457CACD4FC"><apiname>HAL::Set()</apiname></xref> for

that specified attribute. </p> </li>

</ul> <p><b>Comments</b> </p> <p>The

order in which attributes are defined is not important. Comments may be included

by starting a line with //. A comment <i>must</i> be on its own line and cannot

be appended to an attribute specification. </p> </section>

<section id="GUID-3514023A-9CB6-578F-9928-FD0971B81BEF"><title>Values.hda

file</title> <p>The purpose of this file, <filepath>values.hda</filepath>,

is to specify the initial values of the non-derived <xref href="GUID-9AE254D4-AA60-579E-8D9D-F2797106A413.dita#GUID-9AE254D4-AA60-579E-8D9D-F2797106A413/GUID-174A663C-3943-5D36-B507-D97A687C168C">attributes</xref>, i.e. those attributes which are simply stored in, and

retrieved from, the HAL. It must be created in the <filepath>...\variant\hal\...</filepath> directory. </p> <p>The

build system uses the Perl script <filepath>halcfg.pl</filepath> to convert

text information in the Values file into a C++ source file before the C++

compiler is invoked. </p> <p>After initial implementation, any changes to

the file will be picked up by the supplied makefile, <filepath>...\hal\config.mke</filepath>.

The necessary changes are made to the generated <filepath>values.cpp</filepath> file

when the HAL is built. </p> <p>Any additional functions must be added to the

implementation file by hand, e.g. in a file called <filepath>imp.cpp</filepath>.

However, this would be unusual because all likely functions are already implemented

in <filepath>...\hal\src\userhal.cpp</filepath>. </p> <p>The values file consists

of a number of lines of text in the form: </p> <codeblock id="GUID-2BD2A5EA-376A-5B7A-BF2F-7DDFEC9F39EC" xml:space="preserve">&lt;attrib&gt; = &lt;value&gt;</codeblock> <p><b>&lt;attrib&gt;</b> </p> <p>This is one of the values of the enumeration <xref href="GUID-8BE90160-2C60-3582-82C8-4A108C7C0317.dita#GUID-8BE90160-2C60-3582-82C8-4A108C7C0317/GUID-1959915A-BA99-3F94-AFD4-FD1AA540BFBF"><apiname>HALData::TAttribute</apiname></xref> defined

in the header file <filepath>...\hal\inc\hal_data.h</filepath>. </p> <p><b>&lt;value&gt;</b> </p> <p>This is the initial value of the attribute. It

may be specified in various ways, but depends on the attribute, and may be

one of the following: </p> <ul>

<li id="GUID-5C0A1713-DC06-58F1-988C-CD8EB4F774A2"><p>a decimal integer constant </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-1D5479D3-AA7D-587E-89CF-F2ACF4E222AE"><p>a hexadecimal integer

constant, by prepending <codeph>0x</codeph>  </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-FD6C4845-8D85-54F3-AB82-D4A92D09CB8D"><p>an enumerated value

for those attributes that have a corresponding enumeration in <filepath>...\hal\inc\hal_data.h</filepath>.

Note that any substring which is not ambiguous within the enumerated type

is acceptable; matching is not case sensitive. For example, <codeph>intel</codeph> would

be an acceptable abbreviation for <codeph>EManufacturer_Intel</codeph> in

the enumeration <xref href="GUID-8BE90160-2C60-3582-82C8-4A108C7C0317.dita#GUID-8BE90160-2C60-3582-82C8-4A108C7C0317/GUID-FF91E5FE-CD00-3D2F-AE88-F601611F9A55"><apiname>HALData::TManufacturer</apiname></xref>. </p> </li>

<li id="GUID-912B02EB-A3A7-5EA0-B350-1637D5D62EFD"><p> <codeph>bit1 + bit2

+ ... + bitn</codeph>, for those attributes with corresponding bitmask enumerations

in <filepath>...\hal\inc\hal_data.h</filepath>, and declared with the <codeph>bitmask</codeph> pseudo-keyword. <codeph>bit1</codeph>, <codeph>bit2</codeph> etc. are values of the enumeration. Any substring which is not ambiguous

within the bitmask type is acceptable and matching is not case sensitive. </p> </li>

</ul> <p><b>Comments</b> </p> <p>The

order in which attributes are defined is not important. Comments may be included

by starting a line with //. A comment <i>must</i> be on its own line and cannot

be appended to an attribute specification. </p><p><note> Attributes <xref href="GUID-81DC05E0-DEF1-3A67-B0D5-C5B65FC42E9C.dita"><apiname>EMachineUid</apiname></xref> and <xref href="GUID-641E454C-59AD-39C4-8BC6-A9A86042A77B.dita"><apiname>EManufacturer</apiname></xref> should

be allocated UID values in the normal

way. These values should be placed in the values file and in product specific

header files, not in <filepath>...\hal\inc\hal_data.h</filepath></note>.</p> <codeblock xml:space="preserve"> </codeblock> </section>

<section id="GUID-A939F6FD-F3AD-4445-BF25-B2DC26369F91"><title>Example of a non-derived attribute</title> <p>A line similar

to the following in the <filepath>values.hda</filepath> file defines the machine

Uid to the HAL, and shows how a value is paired to an attribute. </p> <codeblock id="GUID-15C4C6A7-10F2-5782-96CE-3A66C074683E" xml:space="preserve">EMachineUid= 0x1000a682</codeblock> <p>A

line similar to the following in the <filepath>config.hcf</filepath> file

indicates that the value is not derived but is simply stored by the HAL. </p> <codeblock id="GUID-2E744820-D5A6-50E1-8449-F8FE69F92796" xml:space="preserve">EMachineUid= 0</codeblock> </section>

<section id="GUID-B8778DDA-DDC5-46D5-B668-D8B788AE23C9"><title>Example (1) of a derived attribute</title> <p>The following

line in the <filepath>config.hcf</filepath> file shows how to configure the

API for the display contrast. This states that the display contrast is settable,

and that the function to do this is called <codeph>ProcessDisplayContrast</codeph>. </p> <codeblock id="GUID-BC43C02A-4436-5BFF-AA35-BF3D2F33AE3C" xml:space="preserve">EDisplayContrast : set = ProcessDisplayContrast</codeblock> </section>

<section id="GUID-83AF21A8-517D-442F-B621-1921A2A8C40E"><title>Example (2) of a derived attribute</title> <p>The following

lines in the <filepath>config.hcf</filepath> file shows how to configure the

API for the display size. </p> <codeblock id="GUID-ACD86D8C-887C-5B32-813A-6E468DE46E74" xml:space="preserve">EDisplayXPixels=ProcessDisplayCurrentModeInfo

EDisplayYPixels=ProcessDisplayCurrentModeInfo</codeblock> <p>This is read

only information, so the entries do not contain the "set" keyword. The values

are derived via the API function <codeph>ProcessDisplayCurrentModeInfo</codeph>,

and there is no corresponding entry in <filepath>values.hda</filepath>. </p> </section>

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