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<title>MIF Editor</title> |
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<p>The MIF Editor allows you to create or edit the <span class="code">.mif</span> files list of scalable icons (<span class="code">.svg</span>) |
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included in a S60 v3.0 and later GUI projects as well as standard <span class="code">.bmp</span> files. A .mif file is a MSX Interchange Format (MIF) file that should be built by the project. MIF files replace the functionality of AIF (and MBM) files.</p> |
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<p class="note"><b>NOTE</b> This editor is only supported by the S60 3.0 and later SDKs.</p> |
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<p class="note"><b>NOTE</b> For resources that are included after creating a project, you should ensure that the output location is set correctly by viewing the file properties. The output location is set to "{EPOCROOT}\epoc32\include" by default, so if an alternate location is required you can set this in the file properties.</p>
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<p>The MIF Editor appears when a MIF file is |
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opened for editing. To open the editor double-click on a .mif file in the Symbian Project Navigator view (figure 1), or select a scalable icon makefile (for example, Icons_scalable_dc.mk), right-click and select the Add MBM/MIF Entry command.</p> |
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<p align="center" class="Image"><img src="../tasks/projects/images/mif_file_symprojnav.png" width="299" height="292"></p> |
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<p class="figure">Figure 1 - MIF File in Symbian Project Navigator</p> |
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<p><img src="../tasks/projects/images/MBM_MIF_editor.png" width="900" height="600"> </p> |
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<p class="figure">Figure 2 - MBM/MIF Editor</p> |
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<h5>Table 1. MBM/MIF Editor —Items</h5> |
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<th width="32%" scope="col">Item</th> |
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<th width="68%" scope="col">Explanation</th> |
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<td><b>Target File </b></td> |
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<td><p>Specifies the EPOCROOT relative path for the compiled images. Click the Default button to set the target file based on the SDK and project name. </p></td> |
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<td><b>Header File </b></td> |
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<td>Shows the generated header file. Select the Header option in the Header Generation group to create a default .mbg file. The path cannot be edited in this field. </td> |
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<td><b>Header Generation</b></td> |
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<td><p>Options include:</p> |
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<li>No header - If selected, no .mbg header will be generated. </li> |
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<li>Header - If selected, a .mbg header will be generated.</li> |
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<td><b>Up</b></td> |
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<td>Select an image in the list and click Up to move the selection one position up in the list.</td> |
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<td><b>Down</b></td> |
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<td><p>Select an image in the list and click Down to move the selection one position down in the list. </p></td> |
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<td><b>Pair Image and Mask </b></td> |
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<td>Select two adjacent unpaired BMP image entries in the list and click this button to combine the images together into image/mask pairs.</td> |
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<td><b>Split Image and Mask </b></td> |
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<td>Select a paired BMP image in the list and click this button to split the image into image and mask entries. </td> |
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<td><b>Swap Image and Mask </b></td> |
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<td>Select a paired BMP image in the list and click this button to swap the image and mask files and format information in paired image entries. </td> |
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<td><b>Add From Project </b></td> |
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<td>Click this button to open an Add Images from Project dialog to reference available images in the project.</td> |
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<td>Click this button to open an Add Images From Filesystem dialog to locate and reference existing images in the filesystem or copy images to the project.</td> |
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<td><b>Remove</b></td> |
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<td>Select an image and click Remove to remove image entry from the list. This does not delete file from directory.</td> |
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<td><b>Color depth </b></td> |
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<td>Select the bit depth used to encode the image at build time.</td> |
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<td><b>Mask depth </b></td> |
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<td><p>Select the bit depth used to encode the mask at build time. Options include:</p> |
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<li>n/a - Do not apply mask depth to images </li> |
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<li>1 - A 1-bit mask treats pixels as "on/off" bits, where black is opaque and white is transparent. </li> |
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<li>8 - An 8-bit mask is treated as alpha values, where black is transparent and white is opaque.</li> |
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<td><b>Color format </b></td> |
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<td>Select Color to encode the image(s) as color or select Grayscale to encode the image(s) as grayscale.</td> |
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<td>Click this button to auto-detect the image depth, mask depth, and color/grayscale setting from the image contents.</td> |
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<td>A preview of the image as it will appear at runtime. </td> |
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<div id="footer">Copyright © 2009 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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