New UIQ 3 SDK released

The Beta 2 version of the UIQ3 SDK has been released on December 8, 2005, and there are a number of changes and improvements in this new version compared the preview Beta version that was released on October 26. The 199MB download is available from UIQ Developer web site [1].

Change log

New example added:
  in //Symbian/UIQ3SDK_BETA2/Examples/UIQ/QLayout

Tools updated:
  Makmake: This tool failed to build for target GCCE in the first Beta version, but that has been fixed in Beta2.
  Bldmake: This tool had as default setting to build for WINSCW and ARMV5. This has now been fixed to build for WINSCW and GCCE as default.

Documentation added:
  UIQ 3 SDK / UIQ Developer Library / UIQ How-To Guides / Controls / Menu Popout
  UIQ 3 SDK / UIQ Developer Library / UIQ How-To Guides / Miscellaneous
  UIQ 3 SDK / UIQ Developer Library / UIQ Examples / QLayout
  UIQ 3 SDK / UIQ Developer Library / UIQ Tools and Utilities / SDK configurator - User Manual
  UIQ 3 SDK / UIQ Developer Library / UIQ Technical Papers
  UIQ 3 SDK / UIQ Developer Library / UIQ API Reference / UIQ C++ Component reference:

• Added new components:
  • QAgendaSharedUi
  • QGsUtils
  • QiCalAgendaConv
• Documented methods:
  • Qikon
  • QEikStd

New MMFH root and APIs:

Previously the MMFH (MultiMedia File Handling) root had the same path on all drives, i.e. "<drive>:\\media files\\". Also the default folder names were always the same on all drives i.e. "image", "audio", "video", "document" and "other". The new APIs make it possible for UIQ Technology's licensees to change the location and name of the MMFH root on a per drive basis and they can do the same to the default folder names. E.g. they could define "c:\\media files\\" as the root on c drive and "d:\\somedir\\files\\" as the MMFH root on the d drive. The same goes for the default folders image folder could be "c:\\media files\\image\\" on c drive but "d:\\somedir\\files\\pictures\\" on d drive. To handle this new behaviour a few new utility methods has been added to CQikMediaFileFolderUtils and some of the old ones have been modified. This means NEVER use hardcoded paths to folders in the MMFH folder structure, ALWAYS use the utility methods provided by CQikMediaFileFolderUtils. The MMFH dialogs (CQikSelectFolderDlg, CQikCopyFilesAndFoldersDl, CQikMoveFilesAndFoldersDlg, CQikSelectFileDlg, CQikSaveFileDlg) has also been modified slightly to handle the new more dynamic folder structure.

For other changes and known issues, please refer to the ReadMe.txt in the SDK installation folder.

[1] You must be registered to be able to download the SDK.