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8 <h2>AIF File</h2> |
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11 The AIF, or application information file, is a Symbian OS-specific file |
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12 format. An AIF file contains information about captions, icons, capabilities |
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13 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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15 <b>NOTE</b> AIF files are used only for Symbian OS versions before 9.1. |
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18 The kind of information an AIF file can contain are:</p> |
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22 <b>Icons</b>: Icons are used to represent applications and |
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23 their associated document files in the system shell or application launcher. If |
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24 the phone's UI supports embedding, icons may also be used to represent embedded |
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28 The source files for icons are .bmp bitmaps. These source files are |
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29 built into a single .mbm file (Symbian OS multiple bitmap file) which is |
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30 incorporated into the aif file as part of the build process. |
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35 <b>Captions</b>: A caption is the text displayed beside its |
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36 icon. Typically it is the application's name.</p> |
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38 Captions for multiple languages can be defined in a single aif, and |
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39 the one corresponding to the current system language will be used. In some UIs, |
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40 captions may be defined in a caption file, separate from the aif file. |
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45 <b>MIME Support</b>: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, |
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46 MIMEs, define a file format for transferring non-ASCII data, such as graphics, |
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47 audio and fax, over the Internet. The AIF file lists the MIME types that the |
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48 application supports, and the priority of support that each type is given. When |
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49 a file is opened, Symbian OS launches the application which has the highest |
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50 priority of support for the type of data in the file. |
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53 Given two applications with the same MIME type priority, Symbian OS |
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54 arbitrarily launches one of them. |
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58 <h5>Related tasks</h5> |
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60 <li><a href="../tasks/AppInfoFile.html">Creating an AIF File</a></li> |
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62 <h5>Related references</h5> |
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64 <li><a href="../reference/AIFEditor.html">AIF Editor</a></li> |
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65 <li><a href="../reference/MMP_Editor.html">MMP Editor</a></li> |
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