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    10 <!DOCTYPE concept
       
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    12 <concept id="GUID-BD7C45B2-11BF-5162-9F9B-B84E51C5C6D4" xml:lang="en"><title>Embeddable
       
    13 Applications</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
       
    14 <section id="GUID-4CE56897-FEB9-523F-843A-E5BAFFDBBCDB"><title>Procedure</title> <p>Embeddable
       
    15 applications are implemented as ECom plug-ins. The <xref href="GUID-C0297A58-2E39-3211-A2B4-C334192CE2A7.dita"><apiname>CApaApplication</apiname></xref> class
       
    16 defines the interface, and the majority of an application's code will be in
       
    17 the ECom plug-in. To allow an embeddable application to run as a standalone
       
    18 application a small EXE also needs to be created which calls the <codeph>EikStart::RunApplication()</codeph> function,
       
    19 but this time specifying the UID of the ECom plug-in rather than a pointer
       
    20 to the factory function. </p> <p>This section describes the steps for converting
       
    21 an existing embeddable application to an ECom plug-in and executable. </p> <p id="GUID-D3711552-3728-592E-9244-4A94D17B430D"><b>Creating the ECom plug-in</b> </p> <p>The
       
    22 MMP file of the embeddable application needs to be changed to create an ECom
       
    23 plug-in instead of a DLL application, using the following lines: </p> <codeblock id="GUID-5A76A5A1-5E8B-50A5-A222-03775DB8784C" xml:space="preserve">TARGET Example_embedded.dll 
       
    24 TARGETTYPE PLUGIN 
       
    25 UID 0x10009d8d 0x01010101</codeblock> <p>where <codeph>0x01010101</codeph> is
       
    26 a newly allocated UID, not the application's original UID - this is used elsewhere,
       
    27 see below. </p> <p>The MMP file also needs to create the ECom plug-in resource,
       
    28 and the original resource line needs to be modified so the application resource
       
    29 file(s) are created in the correct directory. </p> <codeblock id="GUID-C47AD0E7-8A92-5AB4-A742-C1DDB6AC74D4" xml:space="preserve">START RESOURCE 01010101.rss 
       
    30 #ifdef SYMBIAN_SECURE_ECOM 
       
    31 TARGET Example_embedded.rsc 
       
    32 #endif 
       
    33 END 
       
    34 
       
    35 START RESOURCE Example.rss 
       
    36 HEADER 
       
    37 TARGETPATH \resource\apps 
       
    38 LANG SC
       
    39 END</codeblock> <p>The <filepath>01010101.rss</filepath> ECom plug-in resource
       
    40 file uses the standard format for ECom plug-ins, where the interface definition
       
    41 UID for <xref href="GUID-C0297A58-2E39-3211-A2B4-C334192CE2A7.dita"><apiname>CApaApplication</apiname></xref> s is: </p> <codeblock id="GUID-AEDBF454-0768-5A16-BC2B-CFF4EEF81D87" xml:space="preserve">const TUid KUidFileEmbeddedApplicationInterfaceUid={0x101f8c96};</codeblock> <p>The implementation UID should be the application's original UID (<codeph>0x01234567</codeph> in
       
    42 the example below), and therefore the file should look like this: </p> <codeblock id="GUID-04F88175-A0D8-5358-8183-8DDF040CBD01" xml:space="preserve">#include &lt;RegistryInfo.rh&gt; 
       
    43 RESOURCE REGISTRY_INFO
       
    44     {
       
    45     dll_uid = 0x01010101; 
       
    46     interfaces =
       
    47         {
       
    48         INTERFACE_INFO
       
    49             {
       
    50             interface_uid=0x101f8c96;
       
    51             implementations=
       
    52                 {
       
    53                 IMPLEMENTATION_INFO
       
    54                     {
       
    55                     implementation_uid=0x01234567;
       
    56                     version_no=1;
       
    57                     }
       
    58                 };
       
    59             }
       
    60         };
       
    61     }</codeblock> <p> <filepath> ECom.lib</filepath> should be included in
       
    62 the library section in the MMP file. </p> <p>The AIF section is not needed
       
    63 as the application information is now provided by the registration file, localizable
       
    64 resource file and icon file. A registration file should be provided to inform
       
    65 the framework about the embeddable capability of the plug-in. This can be
       
    66 achieved by setting the ‘embeddability' flag in <codeph>APP_REGISTRATION_INFO</codeph> structure.
       
    67 If a stub EXE is provided to start the ECom plug-in, set the embeddability
       
    68 flag to <codeph>KAppEmbeddable</codeph>, otherwise set <codeph>KAppEmbeddableOnly</codeph>.
       
    69 For more information about the registration file please refer to the <xref href="GUID-D8302B04-D850-5FA7-A1AD-F5C40CF6A1EF.dita">How to port guide - data
       
    70 caged applications</xref> document. </p> <p>The code for the application should
       
    71 no longer export the <codeph>NewApplication()</codeph> function at ordinal
       
    72 1, but instead the function which informs the ECom framework of the implementations
       
    73 this ECom plug-in provides (as is standard for an ECom plug-in). This is demonstrated
       
    74 by the following code: </p> <codeblock id="GUID-77C1A71A-E4DB-5D1D-BBFC-8DB508BE439C" xml:space="preserve">#include "ExampleApp.h" 
       
    75 #include &lt;ecom.h&gt; 
       
    76 #include &lt;implementationproxy.h&gt; 
       
    77 GLDEF_C TInt E32Dll(TDllReason)
       
    78     {
       
    79     return KErrNone;
       
    80     }
       
    81 
       
    82 LOCAL_C CApaApplication* NewApplication()
       
    83     {
       
    84     return new CExampleApplication;
       
    85     }
       
    86 
       
    87 LOCAL_D const TImplementationProxy ImplementationTable[]= 
       
    88     { 
       
    89     IMPLEMENTATION_PROXY_ENTRY(0x01234567, NewApplication)
       
    90     };
       
    91 EXPORT_C const TImplementationProxy* ImplementationGroupProxy(TInt&amp; aTableCount) 
       
    92     { 
       
    93     aTableCount=sizeof(ImplementationTable)/sizeof(ImplementationTable[0]);
       
    94     return ImplementationTable; 
       
    95     }</codeblock> <p id="GUID-F2901432-ED44-576A-B081-D3AF916C9A93"><b>Creating
       
    96 the standalone EXE for the application</b> </p> <p>The MMP file for the standalone
       
    97 EXE should create an EXE-app (as described in the section above) and the EXE
       
    98 should have the application's UID as its third UID. The AIF file should be
       
    99 replaced by a registration file. The registration file is used to inform the
       
   100 framework that the application is capable of being embedded by setting <codeph>KAppEmbeddable</codeph> in
       
   101 the ‘embeddability' field of the <codeph>APP_REGISTRATION_INFO</codeph> structure. </p> <codeblock id="GUID-BE2079A0-F267-583F-8098-3F7143EE22FF" xml:space="preserve">#if !defined(EKA2) &amp;&amp; defined(WINS)
       
   102 TARGET Example.app 
       
   103 TARGETTYPE exedll 
       
   104 deffile \epoc32\release\wins\exedllapp.def 
       
   105 #else 
       
   106 TARGET Example.exe 
       
   107 TARGETTYPE exe 
       
   108 #endif 
       
   109 UID 0x100039CE 0x01234567 
       
   110 TARGETPATH \sys\bin 
       
   111 EPOCSTACKSIZE 0x5000 
       
   112 SOURCEPATH . 
       
   113 SOURCE Example_Standalone.cpp 
       
   114 USERINCLUDE . 
       
   115 SYSTEMINCLUDE \epoc32\include
       
   116 
       
   117 // Application exe registration resource file 
       
   118 start resource     Example_reg.rss 
       
   119 targetpath     \private\10003a3f\apps 
       
   120 lang        sc 
       
   121 end
       
   122 
       
   123 LIBRARY euser.lib apparc.lib eikcore.lib</codeblock> <p>The executable need
       
   124 only be a 'stub' to start the application architecture with the ECom UID.
       
   125 Therefore the single source file should contain code similar to the following: </p> <codeblock id="GUID-F6746743-4040-51C8-837A-851AE41B69F5" xml:space="preserve">#include &lt;e32std.h&gt; 
       
   126 #include &lt;eikstart.h&gt;
       
   127 
       
   128 const TUid KExampleUid = {0x01234567}; 
       
   129 GLDEF_C TInt E32Main()
       
   130     {
       
   131     return EikStart::RunApplication(KExampleUid);
       
   132     } 
       
   133 #if defined(__WINS__) &amp;&amp; !defined(EKA2) 
       
   134 GLDEF_C TInt E32Dll(TDllReason)
       
   135     {
       
   136     return KErrNone;
       
   137     } 
       
   138 EXPORT_C TInt WinsMain(TDesC* aCmdLine)
       
   139     {
       
   140     return EikStart::RunApplication(KExampleUid, aCmdLine);
       
   141     } 
       
   142 #endif</codeblock> <p>Finally, the <filepath>bld.inf</filepath> for the application
       
   143 needs to be modified to build both MMP files, for example: </p> <codeblock id="GUID-ADA03DA8-4AE4-50BB-9A28-5745A0F807E2" xml:space="preserve">PRJ_MMPFILES 
       
   144 Example_embedded.MMP 
       
   145 Example_standalone.MMP</codeblock> <p id="GUID-C75A516F-B0BA-5E5C-8C86-2A4FBA9C3034"><b>Embedding
       
   146 a new-style application in an existing application</b> </p> <p>To add a new
       
   147 document to an application, an overload of <codeph>CApaProcess::AddNewDocumentL()</codeph> has
       
   148 been created which can accept an ECom UID or an ECom <xref href="GUID-3107B19B-0607-3E9E-AEA5-BAD07EEC59D0.dita"><apiname>CImplementationInformation</apiname></xref> reference.
       
   149 However, the existing overload of <codeph>AddNewDocumentL()</codeph> handles
       
   150 the case where the application for the document is an EXE, and attempts to
       
   151 find an ECom plug-in with the correct UID to create the embedded application.
       
   152 Therefore, existing applications (which perhaps offer a list of available
       
   153 embeddable applications to the user) do not need to be modified. Also, the
       
   154 internalizing and externalizing of embedded documents (through <xref href="GUID-F9CF2D9A-DF57-3603-896F-E2D5A2AE7481.dita"><apiname>CApaDoor</apiname></xref>)
       
   155 works with no modifications necessary. </p> </section>
       
   156 </conbody><related-links>
       
   157 <link href="GUID-A6116E8B-9C4A-5B9E-AA8A-BE031408AA2F.dita#GUID-A6116E8B-9C4A-5B9E-AA8A-BE031408AA2F/GUID-A28ABF97-3EF0-5554-8A66-C9EB1FF954B6">
       
   158 <linktext>Application properties</linktext></link>
       
   159 </related-links></concept>