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Re: Server Localization Question

Numpty Alert — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:55:11 +0200

And he only had to wait 3 years for the answer

Re: Server Localization Question

dzanter — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:45:33 +0200

The API doc states ConfirmSig, is required to be called before using:

http://www.symbian.com/developer/techlib/v70sdocs/doc_source/reference/cpp/InterfaceToResourceFiles/RResourceFileClass.html#%3a%3aRResourceFile%3a%3aConfirmSignatureL%28%29

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dennis_george — Wed, 11 May 2005 11:23:05 +0200

Yes, I agree with you....

Meanwhile I will also test the same in series 60......

And thanks for you valuable inputs

Dennis

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didster — Wed, 11 May 2005 11:20:39 +0200

It must be some small difference in the SDK somewhere.

Anyway, it's probably a good idea to call it for both UIQ and S60 regardless.

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dennis_george — Wed, 11 May 2005 11:14:46 +0200

The actual problem is that if I don't call ConfirmSignatureL then resource file offset is by default 0. (you will get the offset of the resource file from Offset() function)

And AllocReadLC fetches the resource by extracting 16 bits of LSB of resource ID passed... it then adds this offset to the resource offset which by default is 0.... so you get the wrong offset.... thus you get KErrNotFound error.....

But if use ConfirmSignatureL then Offset() will return the correct offset and thus no problem in AllocReadLC.....

Dennis

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didster — Wed, 11 May 2005 11:10:00 +0200

Perhaps thats it then

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dennis_george — Wed, 11 May 2005 11:07:22 +0200

I am using the same format of the resource file.....

But I am working on UIQ 2.0 emulator.....

Dennis

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didster — Wed, 11 May 2005 11:05:01 +0200

Wired.

On what emulator? I use that on Series 60 1.2 (build with the 1.2 SDK) and S60 2.0 (built with either the 2.0 SDK or the 1.2 SDK) and it works fine on both the emulator or on target.

Are you using a resource file just like that, or do you have anything else in it?

The SDK claims you must call it before calling Alloc etc, so it probably should be in there.

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dennis_george — Wed, 11 May 2005 11:04:33 +0200

My code is crashing in AllocReadLC if I don't use ConfirmSignatureL......

Dennis

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dennis_george — Wed, 11 May 2005 11:02:53 +0200

Hi,

I am saying this because I am also using the same piece of code.... and it is crashing in my emulator..... but if use ConfirmSignatureL then it runs smoothly.....

I hope you have gone through the following link
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~mobo/Symbianv6onedocs/devlib/Common/APIReference/InterfaceToResourceFiles/RResourceFileClass.html#%3a%3aRResourceFile%3a%3aConfirmSignatureL%28%29

So what do you thing am I doing wrong here..... what might be the difference in your code and mine that makes the same piece run on your end but not mine...

Dennis

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didster — Wed, 11 May 2005 10:21:07 +0200

Nope, not to my knowledge.

I have used that code many a time to localize a EXE. In fact, it's copied and pasted out of a working bit of code for one.

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dennis_george — Wed, 11 May 2005 05:35:38 +0200

Hi didster,

Don't you have to call ConfirmSignatureL() before calling AllocReadLC in

Code:

HBufC8* readBuffer = iResFile.AllocReadLC(aId);

Regards
Dennis

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meerkat — Fri, 06 May 2005 10:54:58 +0200

Excellent. That's just what I was looking/hoping for.

As with all things Symbian, it's easy when you know how. The trick is knowing - or having luck with search engines - not to mention luck with book indexes. Luck which deserted me in this case. Actually, even now I know the answer - RResourceFile isn't in the index of the book I had. Fortunately, the Richard Harrison books arrived in the post this morning and they do have it - so hopefully, they'll give me the clues I need in future.

Anyway, thanks again - and thanks for taking the trouble to stick in all that example code too. You're a star.

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didster — Fri, 06 May 2005 09:44:07 +0200

You really don't need to mess about with CONE into EXEs if all you want to do is read a text resource:

Code:

_LIT(KResFile, "MyApp.rsc");

RResourceFile iResFile;

CMyApp::~CMyApp()
{
iResFile.Close();
}

void CMyApp::ConstructL()
{
TFileName aFile(KResFile);
BaflUtils::NearestLanguageFile(iFs, aFile);
iResFile.OpenL(iFs, aFile);
}

HBufC* CMyApp::ReadResourceLC(TInt aId)
{
HBufC8* readBuffer = iResFile.AllocReadLC(aId);
TResourceReader theReader;
theReader.SetBuffer(readBuffer);
TPtrC textdata = theReader.ReadTPtrC();

HBufC16* textBuffer = HBufC16::NewL(textdata.Length());
*textBuffer = textdata;
CleanupStack::PopAndDestroy(readBuffer);
CleanupStack::PushL(textBuffer);
return textBuffer;
}

Will read and return the text based resource, in the same way CONE does.

Your RSS file will need to be sligtly different to usual though. Here is an example of one which will work with the above code:

Code:

// INCLUDES
#include <eikon.rh>
#include "MyApp.loc"

//
// Locallisation
///////////////////////////////
STRUCT STRING
{
LTEXT text;
}

RESOURCE STRING r_confirm { text = q_confirm; }
RESOURCE STRING r_done { text = q_done; }

Now you just call ReadResourceLC(R_CONFIRM)

As you would do if using CONE.

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meerkat — Fri, 06 May 2005 09:40:05 +0200

Thanks. That topic does confirm that CCoeEnv can be available to exe's - hence presumably servers. So it does help, thanks.

I was already doing what that FAQ suggests however. But that confirmation is nice. I'll spend some more time trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong then.

However, if anyone thinks I'm barking up the wrong tree and there's an easier way to get resource info into a server/exe file, please shout.

Cheers.

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meerkat — Thu, 05 May 2005 16:22:12 +0200