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Category: Symbian C++

Why can I not use custom soft keys in global notes?

This question often pops up on the boards and has to do with the way global notes are implemented. (More)

Using TSecurityInfo

Ok its been a long time since I blogged since I have been overworked getting a couple of apps ready for OVI. However there is some info on a useful little but well hidden class: There are two basic ways of getting the process info at runtime, rather than compile time The...

Mercurial book preview

Since the Symbian Foundation is committed to using Mercurial as its SCM (DVCS) I have been looking around for tools and training notes to get up to speed since my tools involve Subversion + Tortoise (personal) and Perforce (work). The best reference I have found so far has been this ...

S60 running on the Intel Atom

The guys over at the Symbian blog are showing off S60 running on an Intel Atom moetherboard, showing its possible to integrate S60 onto other chips aside from ARM. http://blog.symbian.org/2009/04/16/symbian-on-intels-atom/ Roll on the foundation when we can do this ourselves!

Mercurial SCM

Since it was recently announced the Symbian Foundation will be using Mercurial as their SCM. (Instead of GIT :( ) I though I would post up a crib sheet on using mercurial to get a head start on using it. Follow the link ...

HTML Control

Gzytom has posted up a new Symbian control for lightweight parsing and rendering of html compatible with 2nd edition up to the latest 5th edtion. (More)

DevcertList update

DevcertList has been updated to version 1.2 (More)

Reading and writing DM adapter settings

This continues the posts on DM adapters but I have had to break it into 3 parts as its very long because some areas are rather complicated... (More)

Displaying something when starting up your application

One of the commonest question that seems to be asked is how to display a dialog or a note when the application starts. (More)

Reading DM Adapter DDF's

DDF's can be represented as a tree structure and so naturally lead themselves to be described by recursion which most people find difficult to understand. Reading a ddf from the supplied adapter is fairly easy, the problems are the recursive nature of the solution that describes the ddf. ...

Use the device management adapters

Nigel brown reminided me that I had planned to post up a whole lot of stuff on working with the Device management adapter API's. Its written but not posted so the next couple of weeks will be devoted to this as documentation is sparse, though Jukka has posted some examples on the wiki. ...

Symbian signed and openess

I hav'nt posted for a while, primarily becuase I am behind in whitepaper writing and partially due to work commitments. Anyway I am working on a new set of posts explaining the OMA-DM adapters and how to access them so this will be starting in a few days as I have realized the...

Updated Devcert List

Thanks to Tomasz Maciąg I have updated devcert list to check to see if the supplied certificate is in binary form and if so it does not attempt to base 64 decode it. Apparently some folks have binary versions of their devcerts!

DevcertList uploaded onto Wiki

One tool I am continuously missing is the ability to get a list of IMEI's and capabilties from a devcert. Our devcerts have lots of IMEI's and varying capabilties and whilst you can open the certificate in Windows and look at the extension fields to find out if the IMEI is...

Activating the task list

I thought it would be a simple operation to get the task list to display from within my program. (More)