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+    Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+Contributors: 
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+<!DOCTYPE task
+  PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Task//EN" "task.dtd">
+<task id="GUID-EA107811-240C-5F95-922B-7C042FA00A87" xml:lang="en"><title>Reading
+a String Resource </title><abstract><p>The simplest use of a resource file involves reading string resources
+and interpreting the source data. </p></abstract><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><taskbody>
+<context><p>Resources are defined in terms of structs which are accessed and
+read by the <xref href="GUID-AA6DEF11-6F23-3523-A9F7-F15DF918E1BA.dita"><apiname>RResourceFile</apiname></xref> class, and interpreted by the <xref href="GUID-B375D32E-1F91-30FA-8605-A2E163111F9A.dita"><apiname>TResourceReader</apiname></xref>.
+An application may also use resources from multiple files simultaneously.
+See <xref href="GUID-98903A01-CD04-5345-84AE-2E440CE06E11.dita">Resource File examples</xref> for
+more information. </p><p>Consider a sample resource file where a struct of
+STRING is defined having a single member of type <codeph>LTEXT</codeph>: </p><codeblock xml:space="preserve">// define structures
+STRUCT STRING
+    {
+    LTEXT text;
+    }
+// define resources
+RESOURCE STRING hello
+    {
+    text=Bonjour tout le monde!;
+    }
+</codeblock> </context>
+<steps id="GUID-F147E8CF-65D1-5025-BA85-E0D171DBEFFD">
+<step id="GUID-0BAEB54B-5A6E-59F6-B14E-FAF0A3D15F27"><cmd/>
+<info>Compile the resource file using <xref href="GUID-9C57F0C6-E2E3-58A2-907D-924A7E22EA97-GENID-1-8-1-1-5-1-4-1.dita">the
+resource compiler</xref> (rcomp) to generate an <filepath>.rsc</filepath> file
+and an <filepath>.rsg</filepath> file. </info>
+<substeps id="GUID-0B421705-A5CD-5FF7-BB95-C17559811267">
+<substep id="GUID-673E32C9-665C-5388-AE17-780A149F8837"><cmd/>
+<info> <filepath>.rsc</filepath> file contains the resource data; this is
+the resource file that must be referred to at run-time by the <codeph>RResourceFile</codeph> class
+in the C++ code. </info>
+</substep>
+<substep id="GUID-AEE254EB-0716-5478-B1DF-F8ED8E4FF8E1"><cmd/>
+<info> <filepath>.rsg</filepath> file is a <keyword>generated            
+         header</keyword> file that contains <codeph>#define</codeph> statements
+for each resource defined in the source file. In the resource file generated
+here, the only resource is called <codeph>hello</codeph> and the generated
+header file contains: </info>
+<stepxmp><codeblock id="GUID-385BB8E3-FF77-5A95-8F65-043E72412959" xml:space="preserve">#define HELLO 1</codeblock> </stepxmp>
+<info>Note that the name in the generated header file is converted to upper
+case. </info>
+</substep>
+</substeps>
+</step>
+<step id="GUID-3367B1DD-C2E9-5780-A77A-7F574D2EC541"><cmd/>
+<info> <codeph>#include</codeph> the <filepath>.rsg</filepath> file in the
+file containing the C++ code, to access the resource IDs generated by the
+resource compiler. For example, for a project refered as <codeph>ReadText</codeph>,
+this might be: </info>
+<stepxmp><codeblock id="GUID-AC615F67-6331-500C-B91E-ADD6A94464FB" xml:space="preserve">#include ReadText.rsg</codeblock> </stepxmp>
+</step>
+<step id="GUID-ACC66DA2-4AC8-536B-9912-7CE632C0A8DF"><cmd/>
+<info>Initialize the <codeph>RResourceFile</codeph> object in the C++ program,
+specifying the name of the resource file: </info>
+<stepxmp><codeblock id="GUID-5CF79231-E42C-51DF-9002-FD1ED8AB21C1" xml:space="preserve">    
+RResourceFile resourceFile;
+resourceFile.OpenL( fsSession,_L( Z:\\system\\data\\ReadText.rsc ) );</codeblock> </stepxmp>
+<info>Note: To access the resource file contents, a session with the file
+server must be started using an instance of <xref href="GUID-E263C747-946F-35AA-9F1D-41833BD350FC.dita"><apiname>RFs</apiname></xref> class. </info>
+</step>
+<step id="GUID-CA53A8D1-E13E-50A8-96A7-B6B397B82DB3"><cmd/>
+<info>Use one of the three functions (<xref href="GUID-AA6DEF11-6F23-3523-A9F7-F15DF918E1BA.dita#GUID-AA6DEF11-6F23-3523-A9F7-F15DF918E1BA/GUID-9B16E6B8-84A4-37DF-BBB4-EC8B04FDB14C"><apiname>RResourceFile::AllocReadLC()</apiname></xref>, <xref href="GUID-AA6DEF11-6F23-3523-A9F7-F15DF918E1BA.dita#GUID-AA6DEF11-6F23-3523-A9F7-F15DF918E1BA/GUID-8CEE29E0-78F3-3DD6-B068-85C8E0403884"><apiname>RResourceFile::AllocReadL()</apiname></xref> or <xref href="GUID-AA6DEF11-6F23-3523-A9F7-F15DF918E1BA.dita#GUID-AA6DEF11-6F23-3523-A9F7-F15DF918E1BA/GUID-DF6DFFD5-E923-3C4E-87F0-BC4EE7C8B586"><apiname>RResourceFile::ReadL()</apiname></xref> to read a resource as shown in the following
+code fragment: </info>
+<stepxmp><codeblock id="GUID-92AC4270-4A4D-52F1-B5C4-CFF6FBD19700" xml:space="preserve">HBufC8* dataBuffer = resourceFile.AllocReadLC( HELLO );</codeblock> </stepxmp>
+</step>
+<step id="GUID-77F9A976-6E09-5158-B515-256F4B878CDB"><cmd/>
+<info>Interpret the resource data using a <codeph>TResourceReader</codeph> object.
+This provides access to the text string through a pointer descriptor as shown
+in the following code fragment: </info>
+<stepxmp><codeblock id="GUID-CB3BE44D-72F5-5E15-8D1D-52F513D9D980" xml:space="preserve">
+TResourceReader theReader;
+...
+theReader.SetBuffer( datafBuffer );
+TPtrC textdata = reader.ReadTPtrC();</codeblock> </stepxmp>
+</step>
+</steps>
+<result><p>In this example, once the resource data is no longer needed, the
+heap descriptor, dataBuffer, can be removed from the cleanup stack and destroyed
+as shown in the code fragment: </p><codeblock xml:space="preserve">CleanupStack::PopAndDestroy();</codeblock><p>When
+all operations on the resource file are complete, the resource file can be
+closed using the RResourceFile::close() function as:  </p><codeblock xml:space="preserve">resourceFile.Close();</codeblock></result>
+<example><title>Example</title> <p>Consider a resource constructed
+from the following definition. </p> <codeblock id="GUID-538D959C-A85A-5675-9B14-ED81AB860F47" xml:space="preserve">RESOURCE ARRAY anarray
+{
+items=
+    {
+    LBUF { txt="Esc"; },
+    LBUF { txt="Enter"; },
+    LBUF { txt="Tab"; },
+    LBUF { txt="Del"; },
+    LBUF { txt="Space"; }
+    };
+}</codeblock> <p>A <codeph>TPtrC</codeph> representing the second item can
+be constructed using the <codeph>ReadTPtrC()</codeph> function. The example
+simply takes the length of the text <codeph>Enter</codeph>: </p> <codeblock id="GUID-9817910D-0661-513D-BB3A-9557D70688AD" xml:space="preserve">// open the resource file
+...
+HBufC8* res = resourceFile.AllocReadLC( ANARRAY );
+TResourceReader theReader;
+...
+TInt len;
+len = ( theReader.ReadTPtrC( 1,res ) ).Length(); // len == 5
+...</codeblock> </example>
+</taskbody><related-links>
+<link href="GUID-3AF1F492-3D7D-5F8C-B1AE-16FBD8224775.dita"><linktext>Resource
+files</linktext></link>
+<link href="GUID-07C031C2-7FFC-5B0E-9691-E6E678E65C4B.dita"><linktext>Resource
+file format</linktext></link>
+<link href="GUID-3527AAEE-210F-524B-A655-A65F1CE86C80.dita"><linktext>Resource
+compilation</linktext></link>
+</related-links></task>
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