CEikApplication Class Reference

#include <mw/eikapp.h>

Link against: eikcore.lib

class CEikApplication : public CApaApplication

Inherits from

CEikApplication

Protected Attributes
CCoeEnv *	iCoeEnv
TInt	iResourceFileOffset

Public Member Functions
	~CEikApplication()
const TApaAppCaption &	AppCaption()
virtual IMPORT_C TFileName	BitmapStoreName()
virtual IMPORT_C void	Capability(TDes8 &)
virtual IMPORT_C void	GetDefaultDocumentFileName(TFileName &)
virtual IMPORT_C CDictionaryStore *	OpenIniFileLC(RFs &)
CApaProcess *	Process()
virtual IMPORT_C TFileName	ResourceFileName()
TInt	ResourceFileOffset()
IMPORT_C void	SetToIniFileNameL(TParse &)

Protected Member Functions
	CEikApplication()
virtual IMPORT_C CApaDocument *	CreateDocumentL(CApaProcess *)
IMPORT_C void	EnsureCaptionIsLocalisedL(const TDesC &)
virtual IMPORT_C void	NewAppServerL(CApaAppServer *&)
virtual IMPORT_C void	PreDocConstructL()

Inherited Functions
	CApaApplication::AppDllUid()const
	CApaApplication::AppFullName()const
	CApaApplication::CApaApplication()
	CApaApplication::DllName()const
	CApaApplication::GenerateFileName(RFs &,TFileName &)
	CApaApplication::OpenIniFileL(RFs &)const
	CApaApplication::SetAppFileNameRef(const RBuf &)
	CApaApplication::~CApaApplication()
	CBase::CBase()
	CBase::Delete(CBase *)
	CBase::Extension_(TUint,TAny &,TAny )
	CBase::operator new(TUint)
	CBase::operator new(TUint,TAny *)
	CBase::operator new(TUint,TLeave)
	CBase::operator new(TUint,TLeave,TUint)
	CBase::operator new(TUint,TUint)
	CBase::~CBase()

Detailed Description

The base of all Uikon applications.

CEikApplication builds on CApaApplication, providing a basis for applications working within the framework provided by Uikon. It also contains an interface to the resource file and the document object belonging to the application.

Each Uikon application class is derived from CEikApplication. Application writers must provide at least an implementation of the pure virtual function CreateDocumentL().

The application's resource file can be changed from the default by overriding ResourceFileName().

Member Attribute Documentation

iCoeEnv

CCoeEnv *

iCoeEnv

[protected]

iResourceFileOffset

TInt

iResourceFileOffset

[protected]

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

CEikApplication ( )

IMPORT_C

CEikApplication

(

)

[protected]

Default constructor.

The default constructor is empty, and there are no NewL() or NewLC() functions as Uikon applications are created automatically by the application DLL framework when applications are started.

~CEikApplication ( )

IMPORT_C

~CEikApplication

(

)

Destructor.

Deletes any resources acquired by this CEikApplication during its construction phases.

Member Function Documentation

AppCaption ( )

const TApaAppCaption &

AppCaption

(

)

const [inline]

Gets the caption for this application.

Captions are displayed in the task list.

Returns: Application caption.

BitmapStoreName ( )

IMPORT_C TFileName

BitmapStoreName

(

)

const [virtual]

Gets the localized name of the bitmap file used by this application.

By default, this file has an extension of .mbm and uses the same name as the application file in the same directory. Language variants are supported using BaflUtils::NearestLanguageFile().

Returns: The name of the bitmap store for this application.

Capability ( TDes8 & )

IMPORT_C void

Capability

(

TDes8 &

aInfo

)

const [virtual]

Reimplemented from CApaApplication::Capability(TDes8 &)const

Gets the application's capabilities.

Application developers should not need to override this function.

CreateDocumentL ( CApaProcess * )

IMPORT_C CApaDocument *

CreateDocumentL

(

CApaProcess *

aProcess

)

[protected, virtual]

Reimplemented from CApaApplication::CreateDocumentL(CApaProcess *)

Creates a new document.

This function is called by the application DLL framework during application startup to create a new instance of the document associated with this application. This implementation of the function makes a record of the CApaProcess argument, and returns a document created by the un-parameterised, private, overload.

EnsureCaptionIsLocalisedL ( const TDesC & )

IMPORT_C void

EnsureCaptionIsLocalisedL

(

const TDesC &

aLocalisableResourceFile

)

[protected]

Calling this method will ensure that the application Caption has been localized. This is called at the start of applications override of CEikApplication's CreateDocumentL, when application needs to started in Critical phase of Start-Up.

Parameter	Description
aLocalisableResourceFile	Location of the localized resource file

GetDefaultDocumentFileName ( TFileName & )

IMPORT_C void

GetDefaultDocumentFileName

(

TFileName &

aDocumentName

)

const [virtual]

Gets the default document name for this application.

Parameter	Description
aDocumentName	On return, contains the default document file name.

NewAppServerL ( CApaAppServer *& )

IMPORT_C void

NewAppServerL

(

CApaAppServer *&

aAppServer

)

[protected, virtual]

Reimplemented from CApaApplication::NewAppServerL(CApaAppServer *&)

Virtual function called by the framework when the application has been launched as a server application. Applications that wish to be used as server applications must override this function to return their implementation of the server.

Base class implementation of this function leaves with KErrNotSupported, to prevent non-server applications from being launched as server applications.

Parameter	Description
aAppServer	The server pointer to be set.

OpenIniFileLC ( RFs & )

IMPORT_C CDictionaryStore *

OpenIniFileLC

(

RFs &

aFs

)

const [virtual]

Reimplemented from CApaApplication::OpenIniFileLC(RFs &)const

Opens the application's .ini file, if one exists.

If a .ini file does not exist for this application, or if it is corrupt, this function creates one and opens that. .ini files are located on system drive, in the same directory as the application EXE.

Parameter	Description
aFs	File server session to use.

Returns: Pointer to the dictionary store for the .ini file.

PreDocConstructL ( )

IMPORT_C void

PreDocConstructL

(

)

[protected, virtual]

Reimplemented from CApaApplication::PreDocConstructL()

Prepares for document creation.

This function is called by the application DLL framework to complete construction and initialise the new application object. After this function has been called, the CEikApplication can create document objects. If there is a default resource file for this app, then it is added to the control environment.

If this function leaves, this should be treated as if construction had failed, and the object should be destroyed by the caller.

Process ( )

CApaProcess *

Process

(

)

const [inline]

Gets the managing process.

Returns: A pointer to the process object managing this application's documents.

ResourceFileName ( )

IMPORT_C TFileName

ResourceFileName

(

)

const [virtual]

Gets the localized name of the resource file used by this application.

By default, this file has an extension of .rsc and uses the same name as the application file located in the same directory. Language variants are supported through BaflUtils::NearestLanguageFile().

Returns: The name of the resource file. Used by PreDocConstructL().

ResourceFileOffset ( )

TInt

ResourceFileOffset

(

)

const [inline]

Gets the offset value defined for this application's default resource file.

As the resource file offset can also be accessed through iResourceFileOffset, this function should not be needed by any apps.

Returns: Offset of a resource file.

SetToIniFileNameL ( TParse & )

IMPORT_C void

SetToIniFileNameL

(

TParse &

aParser

)

const

Sets a supplied file name parser to contain the path of this application's .ini file.

Parameter	Description
aParser	A file name parser. On return, this contains the path of the application's ini file.