Re: Symbian OS C++ for Mobile Phones (Symbian Press)

vikrant — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:34:31 +0200

Really nice book to get started in icy Symbian waters

Re: Symbian OS C++ for Mobile Phones (Symbian Press)

Fructose — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:24:30 +0200

Finally a book that describes descriptors *fully*.

This is the only book that gives a complete explanation and reference for using descriptors.

Not only does it describes all the descriptor types and how to use them etc. but it also describes their internal structure etc. and from that you can understand why certain things with descriptors dont work. For example why passing a base descriptor by value and not by reference won't work.

In addition it has 4 excellent sections that are not documented anywhere else, they are:
1) Correct Use of Descriptors
This lists many do's and don't and gotchas regarding descriptors and is invaluable if you don't want to get burnt

2) Which type of descriptor to use when returning them from a function
If you never really know which descriptor type to return from a function then read this to know and also understand which to use and why (11 different situations are described for returing a different descriptor type)

3) Which type of descriptor to pass as parameter to functions
Describes the different way of passing descriptors as parameters and which you should use in which situation

4) Descriptor operations
This contains a really useful reference section on converting narrow descriptors to wide descriptors and vice versa and strings to descriptors and vice versa and numbers to descriptors and vice versa.

The chapter is a mixture of background, description, explanation and reference. Even if you know everything about descriptors already (but I bet you don't, did you know for example there are two types of TPtr, and I don't mean one being TPtr and the other TPtrC, actually two different types of TPtr, how many of you knew that?) then the reference sections alone are worth having as you can instantly look up things like how to convert from a narrow string to a wide descriptor that and all the other things you can't all memorize.

Symbian OS C++ for Mobile Phones (Symbian Press)

eric — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:43:14 +0200

Here is the third volume of Harrison's bestsellers in the Symbian Press Portfolio. This third volume is slightly bigger than earlier volumes and covers more topic.

The book brings you:

60 pages of "Getting started" stuff. More an introduction to the book than a real help if you are a complete newbie to Symbian development.

NewLC - Symbian OS C++ for Mobile Phones (Symbian Press) - Comments

Re: Symbian OS C++ for Mobile Phones (Symbian Press)

Re: Symbian OS C++ for Mobile Phones (Symbian Press)

Symbian OS C++ for Mobile Phones (Symbian Press)