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

- + + + + + +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

+ +

Communication +Framework

Data Server

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

+ +

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 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 create OpenVG +content on a semi-transparent or transparent UI using the new Graphics +architecture using ScreenPlay
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 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 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

Networking +Services

How to send an http +page request to the server
How to get the server +response
How to read the server +response
How to connect to +a socket using an IP address
How to connect to +a socket using the host name
How to read/write +data to/from a stream socket
How to read/write +data to/from a datagram socket

PC +Tools

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

Persistent +Data Services

How to store data +in a central repository
How to use the SQL +API for data creation
How to copy one database +to another using the SQL API
How to attach two +databases using the SQL API
How to query a database +using the SQL API
How to create a clipboard
How to copy an object +to the clipboard
How to fetch content +from the clipboard
How to create a database +using the DBMS API.
How to use a database +for indexing using the DBMS API
How to create and replace a direct file store
How to write objects to a single stream
How to close a file stream
How to restore objects from a root stream
How to externalize a network of objects to a direct file store
How to internalize a network of objects from a direct file store
How to construct and write a network of objects to a permanent file +store
How to write two +different types of object to a single stream contained in the memory +store
How to restrore objects +from a memory store
How to externalize a compound object to a memory stream
How to internalize a compound object from a memory stream
How to stream a simple class to and from a single stream
How to stream a compound object to multiple streams using a store +map
How to externalize objects to a single stream in a non-persistent +store
How to externalize an object to a store embedded within a permanent +file store
How to write a network of objects to more than one stream in a direct +file store
How to defer the loading of an object from the store into memory
How to get the list +of available features in a device
How to add a new +feature to the device
How to modify or +delete a feature
How to get notification +about a feature change

PIM

How to view a contact +database
How to create and +use a calendar file
How to create and +open a calendar file
How to create a view +of the entries in a calendar file
How to add properties +to a calendar file
How to create a vCard +parser
How to export a vCard +to a file
How to import a vCard +from a file

+ +

System +GUI Framework

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

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