build/common/readme.txt
author Tom Sutcliffe <thomas.sutcliffe@accenture.com>
Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:29:09 +0000
changeset 90 ceac7084e2e5
parent 0 7f656887cf89
permissions -rw-r--r--
Implemented RObjectIx-based memoryaccess APIs. Upshot is that objinfo now works again on platforms that define FSHELL_NO_DOBJECTIX_SUPPORT.

A few words about how and why the tool-kit's UIDs are defined here.

The motivation for centrally defining all the tool-kit's UIDs in one place
was to allow them all to be changed into the non-protected range, thereby
allowing the tool-kit to be installed using a self-signed SIS file. Note,
self-signed SIS files can only be used with UIDs in the non-protected range.

Each platform that the tool-kit supports gets to decide which range of UIDs
it will use. The platforms (i.e. sub-directories of \fshell/platforms)
decide which range to use by whether they define FSHELL_PROTECTED_UIDS in their
platform.mmh. This macro is picked up by common.mmh (which is #included by
all .mmp files) and any .cpp or .rss (or similar) files that need it.