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<task id="GUID-026E865E-12FA-59A9-B923-309B65790E23" xml:lang="en"><title>Creating

a FAT Filename Conversion Plug-in</title><shortdesc>This section describes how to create a FAT Filename Conversion

plug-in DLL. </shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><taskbody>

<prereq><p>This tutorial assumes that you have an understanding of the following: </p> <ul>

<li id="GUID-09E0AD13-A9EA-5A1B-956F-2AC4812F99FC"><p><xref href="GUID-66231EA2-BDEF-582D-A4B9-F356B590038D.dita">FAT

Filename Conversion Plug-ins Overview</xref> introduces Windows code page

and the main purpose of the Plug-ins component. </p> </li>

</ul> </prereq>

<context><p>The flowchart below shows the steps to create a Fat Filename Conversion

plug-in DLL. </p> <fig id="GUID-B3799729-B2DB-55E3-AE09-E045A9E1AE8B">

<image href="GUID-9482CC98-2600-539D-A243-639CF11A2599_d0e426550_href.jpg" placement="inline"/>

</fig> <p> <b>Note</b>: To create the plug-in DLL, the <filepath>unicodeconv.cpp</filepath> file

is needed. It provides the functions to convert text between Unicode and a

foreign encoding. It is available on the <xref href="https://developer.symbian.org/xref/sfl/xref/MCL/sf/os/kernelhwsrv/userlibandfileserver/fatfilenameconversionplugins/src/" scope="external">Symbian Foundation</xref> web site. </p><p>This tutorial

uses the example of <codeph>CP1250</codeph> to explain the process of creating

a plug-in DLL. </p> </context>

<steps id="GUID-8037DE6A-A5AB-575A-A9F5-0A6CB42651D4">

<step id="GUID-21741F55-882F-51B9-BA77-EBFFED6B7D5E"><cmd>Create a source

file using a text editor and save it as, for example <filepath>d:\charconvfiles\data\cp1250.txt</filepath>.

This file contains pairs of hexadecimal numbers. The first number in each

pair is the encoding of a character in CP1250 and the second is the Unicode

encoding of the same character. </cmd>

<stepxmp><codeblock id="GUID-D6C46177-19BC-5AB6-9E0D-FEC339F71948" xml:space="preserve">...

0x00    0x0000    #NULL

0x01    0x0001    #START OF HEADING

0x02    0x0002    #START OF TEXT

0x03    0x0003    #END OF TEXT

0x04    0x0004    #END OF TRANSMISSION

0x05    0x0005    #ENQUIRY

0x06    0x0006    #ACKNOWLEDGE

...</codeblock> </stepxmp>

<info>The source file has the same syntax as a cnvtool source file. For more

information about the syntax, refer to <xref href="GUID-6796BA71-47A7-5465-89F2-BD0AEF2E4EE7.dita">Cnvtool

Source File</xref>. </info>

</step>

<step id="GUID-10B9D3BB-7B21-5AC0-89B0-5E89C5796F11"><cmd/>

<info>Start a command prompt to run the ConversionTable tool on the source

as follows:<p><userinput><cmdname>cd </cmdname><parmname>d:\Symbian\epoc32\tools</parmname></userinput></p><p><userinput><cmdname>ConversionTable.pl </cmdname><parmname>d:\charconvfiles\data\cp1250.txt</parmname></userinput></p> </info>

<info>This process generates a C++ source code file called <filepath>cp1250.cpp</filepath>.

It is referred to as the ConversionTableTool-generated cpp file, which contains

the data structure. The data structure is used by <filepath>unicodeconv.cpp</filepath> for

the encoding conversion. </info>

</step>

<step id="GUID-D4F5D984-62E2-53F2-944E-E6E387ACA697"><cmd/>

<info>Create an mmp file which is used to build the plug-in DLL. </info>

<stepxmp><codeblock id="GUID-468B6E29-27BB-547B-A00A-5FF05D0A6E2C" xml:space="preserve">TARGET            cp1250.dll

CAPABILITY            All

TARGETTYPE            dll

UID        0x100039e6 0x10206A9C

VENDORID     0x70000001

OS_LAYER_SYSTEMINCLUDE

USERINCLUDE            ../inc

SOURCEPATH            ../src

SOURCE            unicodeconv.cpp

SOURCEPATH            +/build/generated/fatcharsetconv

SOURCE            cp1250.cpp

DEFFILE             fatCnv.def

LIBRARY            euser.lib

SMPSAFE</codeblock> </stepxmp>

</step>

</steps>

<postreq><p>Build the plug-in DLL and install it into the <filepath>\sys\bin\</filepath> directory.

The DLL is then available to be loaded and called by the File Server.</p></postreq>

</taskbody><related-links>

<link href="GUID-2068DA42-AE77-5213-B3CF-C3AB7F2188BE.dita"><linktext>Using a FAT

Filename Conversion Plug-in</linktext></link>