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<h2>AIF File</h2> |
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The AIF, or Application Information File, is a Symbian OS-specific file |
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format. An AIF file contains information about captions, icons, capabilities |
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and MIME priority support used by the application. The MMP editor provides support for the AIF editor in the Sources > Resources group.</p> |
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<b>NOTE</b> AIF files are used only for Symbian OS versions before 9.1. |
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The kind of information an AIF file can contain are:</p> |
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<b>Icons</b>: Icons are used to represent applications and |
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their associated document files in the system shell or application launcher. If |
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the phone's UI supports embedding, icons may also be used to represent embedded |
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The source files for icons are .bmp bitmaps. These source files are |
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built into a single .mbm file (Symbian OS multiple bitmap file) which is |
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incorporated into the aif file as part of the build process. |
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<b>Captions</b>: A caption is the text displayed beside its |
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icon. Typically it is the application's name.</p> |
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Captions for multiple languages can be defined in a single aif, and |
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the one corresponding to the current system language will be used. In some UIs, |
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captions may be defined in a caption file, separate from the aif file. |
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<b>MIME Support</b>: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, |
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MIMEs, define a file format for transferring non-ASCII data, such as graphics, |
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audio and fax, over the Internet. The AIF file lists the MIME types that the |
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application supports, and the priority of support that each type is given. When |
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a file is opened, Symbian OS launches the application which has the highest |
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priority of support for the type of data in the file. |
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Given two applications with the same MIME type priority, Symbian OS |
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<h5>Related tasks</h5> |
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<li><a href="../tasks/AppInfoFile.html">Creating an AIF File</a></li> |
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<h5>Related references</h5> |
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<div id="footer">Copyright © 2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies). All rights reserved. <br>License: <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html">http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html</a></div> |
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