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PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd"> |
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<concept id="GUID-2DC89F9D-30E8-5260-8850-53E4152EE3CF" xml:lang="en"><title>Finding your way around</title><shortdesc>Read this page to learn about the contents and structure |
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of the library.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody> |
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<section id="GUID-91A35BDC-92E4-47D6-8A04-C6E0C444C484"><title>The |
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platform structure and APIs</title> <p>The <xref href="GUID-32E29020-1956-461A-B79A-1492E06049E7.dita">Symbian Guide</xref> provides introductory documents to the platform as a whole, and |
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guides that describe the major areas of the platform in depth. </p><p>The Symbian platform is a large system, and contains hundreds |
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of C++ classes and thousands of member functions. Like most complex |
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systems, it is easiest to divide it into large areas, and gradually |
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to narrow your focus down to the areas that are most important to |
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your tasks. </p><p>The <xref href="http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/index.php/Symbian_System_Model" scope="external">Symbian System Model</xref> organises the components |
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of the Symbian platform into a layered software architecture. The |
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guides in this library are also structured around this architecture. |
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The guides describe the key technology and architectural concepts |
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of the area, and show the key ways to use its classes.</p> <p>Note: |
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Before the System Model was introduced, the Symbian platform used |
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another architectural view based on large divisions called subsystems. |
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Some documentation has not yet been changed to use the System Model |
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rather than subsystems. </p> </section> |
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<section id="GUID-5C4DC90E-DB65-4EB7-B271-D64D5FC5A065"><title>Newcomers |
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to the Symbian platform</title> <p>For those developing on the Symbian |
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platform for the first time, the <xref href="GUID-35D7EEFC-B2E4-5444-8875-2A24790E08C2.dita">Essential Idioms</xref> section describes the distinctive programming idioms and conventions |
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of the Symbian platform. </p> </section> |
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<section id="GUID-0AA83743-82BC-473B-ABFD-20FFD6AB6485"><title>Examples</title> <p>The <xref href="GUID-270C96B0-4BDF-5A18-A8FE-FA4F78BB34EE.dita">Examples</xref> section gives instructions for building and using the large set |
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of C++ example projects that accompany the library. Projects include |
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examples that demonstrate the use of fundamental Symbian platform |
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classes, and many examples showing how to use particular Symbian platform |
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C++ APIs. </p> <p>Example code is provided for illustrative and demonstration |
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purposes, and should not be assumed to be useable as product code. </p></section> |
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<section id="GUID-C5687256-B657-4D29-B280-1837D4F991AE"><title>Tools</title><p>The library does not include documentation for most tools, which |
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are usually delivered separately from the Symbian platform code. See |
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the <xref href="http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/index.php/Category:Tools" scope="external">Tools</xref> section of the <xref href="http://developer.symbian.org/" scope="external">Symbian Developer |
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Community</xref> website.</p><p>The Tools section documents |
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the tools that are delivered with the platform. In particular, the |
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Build Tools Guide and the Build Tools Reference document the <cmdname>abld</cmdname>/<cmdname>bldmake</cmdname> (SBSv1) command line build |
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tools, and explain the project file formats. </p></section> |
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