diff -r 000000000000 -r f72a12da539e menufw/hierarchynavigator/hnutilities/src/hnconvutils.cpp
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+++ b/menufw/hierarchynavigator/hnutilities/src/hnconvutils.cpp	Thu Dec 17 08:40:49 2009 +0200
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+/*
+* 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: 
+*
+*/
+
+
+#include <utf.h> 
+#include <e32std.h>
+
+#include "hnconvutils.h"
+#include "hnglobals.h"
+
+// ======== MEMBER FUNCTIONS ========
+
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// 
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+EXPORT_C HBufC* HnConvUtils::Str8ToStr( const TDesC8& aStr )
+    {
+    HBufC* ret = HBufC::New( aStr.Length() );
+    if (ret)
+    	{
+    	TPtr dest( ret->Des() );
+    	CnvUtfConverter::ConvertToUnicodeFromUtf8( dest, aStr );
+    	}
+    return ret;
+    }
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// 
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+EXPORT_C HBufC* HnConvUtils::Str8ToStrLC( const TDesC8& aStr )
+    {
+    HBufC* ret = HBufC::NewLC( aStr.Length() );
+    TPtr dest( ret->Des() );
+    CnvUtfConverter::ConvertToUnicodeFromUtf8( dest, aStr );
+    return ret;
+    }
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// 
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+EXPORT_C HBufC8* HnConvUtils::StrToStr8LC( const TDesC16& aStr )
+    {
+    TInt length = aStr.Length();
+    HBufC8* ret = HBufC8::NewL( length );
+    TPtr8 dest( ret->Des() );
+    TInt num = CnvUtfConverter::ConvertFromUnicodeToUtf8( dest, aStr );
+    while( num != 0 )
+    	{
+    	delete ret;
+    	length += num;
+    	ret = HBufC8::NewL( length );
+    	dest.Set( ret->Des() );
+    	num = CnvUtfConverter::ConvertFromUnicodeToUtf8( dest, aStr );
+    	}
+    CleanupStack::PushL(ret);
+    return ret;
+    }
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// 
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+EXPORT_C HBufC8* HnConvUtils::StrToStr8L( const TDesC16& aStr )
+    {
+    HBufC8* buf = HnConvUtils::StrToStr8LC( aStr );
+    CleanupStack::Pop( buf );
+    return buf;
+    }
+    
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// 
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+EXPORT_C HBufC8* HnConvUtils::NumToStr8LC( const TInt& aNum )
+    {
+    HBufC8* ret = HBufC8::NewLC( KMaxLength );
+    ret->Des().AppendNum( aNum );
+    return ret;
+    }
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// 
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+EXPORT_C TInt HnConvUtils::Str8ToInt( const TDesC8& aValue, TInt& aResult )
+    {
+    // if a string starts from '0x' then convert aStr from hex to int.
+    // else send aStr to the StrDec2Uint    
+    TInt err( KErrNotFound );
+    TInt position( aValue.Find( KHexStart8 ) );
+    
+    TLex8 lexer( aValue );
+    if ( position == 0 )
+        {
+        // is hex, it it can only unsinged
+        lexer.SkipAndMark( KHexStart8().Length() );
+        TUint tmp;
+        err = lexer.Val( tmp, EHex );
+        aResult = tmp;
+        }
+    else
+        {
+        err = lexer.Val( aResult );
+        }
+    return err;
+    }
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// 
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+EXPORT_C TInt HnConvUtils::StrToInt( const TDesC& aValue, TInt& aResult )
+    {
+    TInt err( KErrNotFound );
+    RBuf8 buf;
+    err = buf.Create( aValue.Length() );
+    if ( KErrNone == err )
+        {
+        buf.Copy( aValue );
+        err = HnConvUtils::Str8ToInt( buf, aResult );
+        }
+    buf.Close();
+    return err;
+    }
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// 
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+EXPORT_C TInt HnConvUtils::Str8ToInt( const TDesC8& aValue, TInt32& aResult )
+    {
+    // if a string starts from '0x' then convert aStr from hex to int.
+    // else send aStr to the StrDec2Uint    
+    TInt err( KErrNotFound );
+    TInt position( aValue.Find( KHexStart8 ) );
+    
+    TLex8 lexer( aValue );
+    if ( position == 0 )
+        {
+        // is hex, it it can only unsinged
+        TUint32 tmp;
+        lexer.SkipAndMark( KHexStart8().Length() );
+        err = lexer.Val( tmp, EHex );
+        aResult = tmp;
+        }
+    else
+        {
+        err = lexer.Val( aResult );
+        }
+    return err;
+    }
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// 
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+EXPORT_C TInt  HnConvUtils::StrToInt( const TDesC& aValue, TInt32& aResult )
+    {
+    TInt err( KErrNotFound );
+    RBuf8 buf; 
+    err = buf.Create( aValue.Length() );
+    if ( KErrNone == err )
+        {
+        buf.Copy( aValue );
+        err = HnConvUtils::Str8ToInt( buf, aResult );
+        }
+    buf.Close();
+    return err;
+    }
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// 
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+//
+EXPORT_C TInt HnConvUtils::Str8ToUint( const TDesC8& aValue, TUint& aResult )
+    {
+    // if a string starts from '0x' then convert aStr from hex to int.
+    // else send aStr to the StrDec2Uint    
+    TInt err( KErrNotFound );
+    TInt position( aValue.Find( KHexStart8 ) );
+    
+    TLex8 lexer( aValue );
+    if ( position == 0 )
+        {
+        // is hex
+        lexer.SkipAndMark( KHexStart8().Length() );
+        err = lexer.Val( aResult, EHex );
+        }
+    else
+        {
+        err = lexer.Val( aResult );
+        }
+    return err;
+    }