Carbider | 05 October, 2007 15:50

After Carbide C++ v.1.2 product was downloaded at http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/resources/tools_and_sdks/carbide_cpp/

there was a period while all features were enabled. I used Carbide professional edition.

Then the test period was over, and Carbide came to Express(free, test) edition automatically.

For now I could not use UI Designer tool.

As a S2F blogs author, I was linked up with https://pro.forum.nokia.com/ launchpad program. We ordered there license of Carbide Developer edition.

It took some time to understand, why the license is not still available for me though it was ordered. The reason was that there are different statuses of launchpad members. They are: the account owner and the account users. After purchasing Carbide, the account owner directs the license to account user. At this step user can activate the license.

There are “Node-locked” and “Floating” licenses models. The first means, that the license will be tied to concrete user’s computer by mac-address. The floating license allows to use several carbide products on several computers inside one development team’s network.

My license was node-locked. I clicked “Activate” link in front of license in my account.

The activation page has appeared. There I putted in my mac-address. I have Windows XP machine, so I used “IP CONFIG /ALL” command in prompt to retrieve those address. The license’s text appeared on screen, I copied it to Carbide’s “Help->Carbide Licenses->Install License”.

That was it. After IDE restarted I have had already enabled UI Designer feature.

The S60v3 SDK wants to be registered after 14 days too. It is simple free registration. The code would be send to your e-mail.

The license installation is described step-by-step while you’re ordering and retrieving it at http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/e-store/.
The most full description is in pfd: http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/images/1/1b/EStore-UM-v3.0.pdf