List +of Example Code Use Cases

This document lists all the example code programs available for each module, +organised by use case.

Symbian Platform +Fundamentals

Basic +helloworld application
How +to create a C class
How +to do single phase construction
How +to do two-phase construction
How +to use an R class
How +to use a T class
How +to use a mixin class
How +to create a static DLL
How +to use a static DLL

Application +Framework

How +to implement a simple GUI application with a single view
How to create an animation +using the Bitmap Animation framework
How to view an animation +inside a window

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Communication +Framework

Data Server

How +to do connection monitoring and management using the RConnection API

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High Level +Internet Protocols

How +to use HTTP APIs

Generic Application +Support

How +to add a floating alarm to the alarm server
How +to add a fixed alarm to the alarm server
How +to get notification from the alarm server

Generic OS +Services

How +to compress data using the EZLIB API
How +to decompress data using the EZLIB API
How +to create a secure directory using PIPS
How +to read data from a file using PIPS
How +to write data to a file using PIPS
How +to remove the secure directory using PIPS
How +to use the P.I.P.S. standard C maths library, libm.dll
How +to compress/ decompress a file using Open C library.
How +to compress/ decompress a string using Open C library.
How +to do filtered data compression and Huffman compression using Open C library.
How +to send/receive messages using open C message queue library
Shows +string utility using open C libraries
How +to write solution for Producer/ Consumer Problem using Open C
how +to redirect stdio to a file using libc library
How +to convert a MS-word document (i.e. .doc) file in to a plain text(i.e. .txt) +file/Adobe acrobat(i.e. .pdf) file/ post-script (i.e. .ps) file/ xml (i.e. +.xml) file.
How +to handle global variables within the library code
How +to solve WSD (Writable Static Data) problem
How +to write a simple console-based STDLIB (C Standard library) program
How +to write a Techview GUI application whose engine is written using STDLIB
How +to create the most basic STDLIB application
How +to develop hybrid application which uses both pure C and native Symbian C++ +APIs
How +to create a named pipe
How +a parent process communicates with its child process using named pipes (FIFO)
How +a parent process communicates with its child process using a single pipe (popen())
How +to create multiple threads in PIPS using libpthread
How +to synchronize among multi threads in PIPS
How to handle +a signal using the default handler
How to handle +a signal using a customized signal handler
How to ignore +an incoming signal
How to block +and release a signal
How to wait +for a signal
How to handle +a SIGPIPE signal
How to gracefully +terminate a process
How to handle +an asynchronous event using signals
How to create a data recognizer
How to get the MIME type(s) +that a data recognizer is capable of recognizing
How to do data recognition
How +to run tasks using the task scheduler
How +to use the XML framework to parse XML and WBXML files
How +to read data from a resource file into an array
How +to use a resource reader to read data from a resource file into the data members +of a class
How +to read a resource from a resource file
How +to read a string resource and print it
How +the signature of a resource file is checked before it is used
How +to read a text string from a resource file
How +to check the identity of a resource file
How +to read multiple resource files
How +to use multiple resource files with cross-referenced resources
How +to write an interface definition for an ECOM plug-in
How +to implement an interface in an ECOM plug-in
How +to obtain the default implementation of an interface in an ECOM plug-in
How +to obtain an implementation of an interface in an ECOM plug-in
How +a client application uses the interface in an ECOM plug-in
How to do string handling +with EUserHl
How to do resource management +using EUserHl
How to get the memory overhead +of using EUserHl

Graphics

How +to create an animated sprite from a bitmap
How +to use the window server's direct screen access interface
How +to do ordinal positioning of windows
How +to implement simple freehand drawing using a pointer buffer
How +to load a bitmap
How +to draw a bitmap
How +to construct a control
How +to rotate a bitmap
How +to create a label
How +to draw various shapes in a window

Kernel and +Hardware Services

How +to insert elements into a dynamic array
How +to append elements to a dynamic array
How +to access elements of a dynamic array
How +to remove elements from a dynamic array
How +to search a dynamic array
How +to sort a dynamic array
How +to destroy a dynamic array
How +to check the range for fixed arrays
How +to create a circular buffer
How +to add elements to a circular buffer
How +to remove elements from a circular buffer
How +to insert elements into a dynamic buffer
How +to read the elements of a dynamic buffer
How +to overwrite a dynamic buffer
How +to expand a dynamic buffer
How +to delete elements from a dynamic buffer
How +to compress a dynamic buffer
How +to display the contents of a buffer
How +to do lexical analysis
How +to create a resizable buffer
How +to swap two resizable buffers
How +to assign data to a resizable buffer
How +to reallocate a resizable buffer
How +to replace and modify the data in a resizable buffer
How +to do date and time handling
How +to connect to the file server
How +to disconnect from the file server
How +to create a file
How +to retrieve the attributes of a file
How +to create a file server session
How +to retrieve default paths
How +to change the session and system path
How +to obtain information about the available drives
How +to parse filenames
How +to monitor the progress of a file copy
How +to use the Publish and Subscribe mechanism
How +to do security checking on a client by a server
How +to get locale-specific currency values and symbols
How +to synchronise threads
How +to use thread local storage
How +to implement an asynchronous timer
How +to implement a periodic timer
How +to implement a heartbeat timer
How +to create a global message queue
How +to send a message to another process
How +to receive a message from another process
How +to load and unload a driver
How +to create multiple connections to a server
How +to use active objects and an active scheduler
How +a wait loop can be used to identify request completion
How +to accept and print keyboard inputs to a console
How to create multiple subsessions within a session
How +to start a server
How +to create a single session with a server
How +to load and read from the locale DLL
How +to construct an object and leave on failure
How +to construct an object and return an error code on failure
How +to cleanup compound classes
How +to implement the NewL() static function
How +to implement the NewLC() static function
How +to use the cleanup stack
How +to use the TRAPD macro
How +to use CleanupDeletePushL()
How +to use CleanupClosePushL()
How +to use CleanupReleasePushL()
How +to use CleanupArrayDeletePushL()
How to use a doubly linked list
How to use a singly linked list
How to use a delta queue
How to generate timer events
How +to use a logical device driver (LDD) and a physical device driver (PDD)
How +to use a global condition variable
How +to implement a write operation on a shared memory block
How +to use a local condition variable
How +to create a queue of integer tokens
How +to load and unload an ldd and pdd
How +to cancel an asynchronous request
How +multiple clients in different processes connect to a server
How to handle binary data using 8 bit descriptors
How to use basic buffer descriptors
How to create and use a heap buffer descriptor
How to use descriptors as function arguments
How to use modifiable descriptors
How to use non-modifiable descriptors
How to use pointer descriptors
How +to get the number of available power-related resources
How +to get information about a power-related resource
How +to get information about all power-related resources
How +to get the state of a power-related resource
How +to get the number of clients using a particular power-related resource
How +to get the number of power-related resources used by a client
How +to get information about all the power-related resources in use by a particular +client
How +to get information about all clients using a particular power-related resource
How +to get the names of all Resource Manager clients
How +to change the state of a power-related resource
How +to get notification about a state change to a power-related resource
How +to use semaphore in a multithreaded application
How to understand +the differences between multithreaded code running in a unicore environment +and in a multiprocessor environment
How to use a +named database using RdbNamedDatabase

Messaging

How +to create a client registry
How +to create an IMAP account
How +to create an SMTP account
How +to create an SMTP message
How +to send an SMTP message
How +to connect to the IMAP server and download mail sent using SMTP
How +to update registry information when MTM groups are installed or uninstalled
How +to create a POP3 account
How +to connect to a POP3 server and download mail sent using SMTP
How +to create a SendAs message
How +to display account names
How +to define the connected session's available message types
How +to forward a message from an MTM account
How +to query for the capability of an MTM account
How +to create a BIO message
How +to create a session with the message server
How +to send a BIO message
How +to create a BIO message parser
How +to read messages from the message store
How +to parse a message's body text using the BIO message parser
How +to display the header information for message entries
How +to search and sort a message store
How +to do a combined search/sort of a message store
How +to search and sort a message store iteratively
How +to search and sort a message store using a query ID
How +to create an SMS service
How +to create an SMS
How +to send an SMS
How +to access and display SMS messages in the inbox, outbox and sent folders
How +to delete SMS messages

Multimedia

How +to play an audio tone
How +to play audio from a file
How +to convert an audio file to another format
How +to record an audio file
How +to stream data
How +to set the volume of an audio file
How +to capture a still image
How +to capture video
How +to transfer viewfinder data
How +to perform image processing
How +to implement sink and source plug-ins for the Multimedia Framework
How +to convert images from one format to another
How +to manipulate images, for instance rotate, flip and zoom
How +to record audio clips
How +to get the list of audio formats supported
How +to record audio
How +to implement a codec plug-in for the Multimedia Framework
How +to convert media data from one encoding into another
How +to convert PCM8 into PCM16 encoded audio data
How +to implement a format encoder plug-in to the Multimedia Framework
How +to implement a format decoder plug-in to the Multimedia Framework
Basic +panorama stitching
Panorama +stitching based on viewfinder tracking
Image +processing with some basic effects
Generating +Scalado SpeedView objects (Spmo)
Removing +effects from the images
Adding +effects to the images and generating a preview
Adding +effects to the images and generating an overlay
Adding +a SpeedView object to the image
Squeeze +an image from a file to a file
Squeeze +an image from buffer to buffer
Auto +squeeze an image from file to file
Rotate +an image from file to file
Blend +a jpg data in file to a file and squeeze it

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PC Tools

How to create +a simple installation file for an application
How +to create an installation file for a multilingual application

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System GUI +Framework

How to create and display +a digital clock
How to create and display +an analog clock

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