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Controls all aspects of building a project. It is created in the current directory by the bldmake tool from a component description file.

See also: bldmake tool

Used to describe a class which describes behaviour, but which does not implement it. Many implementations of the behaviour might be available. Each is referred to as a concrete class.

See also: concrete

A record of the number of objects referencing a contact item. A contact item cannot be fully deleted until its access count is zero.

See also: contact item

The locking used by the file access: exclusive, readers only, or shared with any.

A class derived from CActive, which is responsible for issuing requests to asynchronous service providers and handling those requests on completion.

See also: active scheduler, asynchronous service provider

A class derived from CActiveScheduler, responsible for scheduling events to the active objects in an event-handling program.

See also: asynchronous service provider, active object

In the context of the Network Interface Manager (NifMan), the component which NifMan uses to set up a dial-up connection.

Or, in the context of a vCard, a property within a vCard whose value is a string representing another entity.

See also: property, vCard, entity

An GUI application for generating an application information file, including its bitmaps. The application runs on a development machine (not the device or Emulator).

See also: AIF icon designer

Another name for an application information file.

See also: application information file

Generates bitmaps for use in the aif file. Currently only launched from the AIF builder.

See also: AIF builder

The time that the alarm was/is due.

Before an alarm activates this is the same as the alarm time. If the alarm is snoozed then the due time remains the same, but the alarm time becomes the new activation time.

See also: alarm time

The message which is displayed to the user when the alarm time is reached.

See also: alarm time

An algorithmic sound or a sampled sound file stored in the system alarms directory (\System\Alarms).

See also: algorithmic sound, sampled sound file

The time the alarm is next expected to activate.

See also: alarm due time

A standard for encoding 12-bit sound as 8-bit data.

See also: sampled sound file

help authoring tool

See also: help authoring

A sound generated by the sound driver by synthesising sounds according to an algorithm.

See also: sampled sound file

Marks the start of a selection

See also: cursor, selection

Application Programming Interface, the visible public behaviour a system object or component exposes to other objects or components

A CONE class which defines application-wide aspects of the user interface, such as key event handling. Each CONE application has exactly one app UI, which may be either a simple app UI or a standard app UI.

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The interface an application presents to the user, or the subclass of CEikAppUi an app uses.

See also: simple app UI, standard app UI, user interface

A run-time object that acts as a factory for documents and provides some document-independent utility functions.

See also: document

Defined in the aif file, the application capabilities include the embeddable, hidden, and new file capabilities.

See also: embeddable capability, hidden capability, new file capability, application information file

File which contains the caption, icon, capabilities, and MIME priority support information for an application. Has the file extension aif.

See also: aif file, icon, caption, application capabilities, MIME

Application Binary Interface. The term used for different forms of binary executable code that run on ARM processors. Types of ABIs are ARMI, ARM4 and THUMB.

See also: ARM processors

In Quartz, the bar at the top of the screen that contains icons that enable a user to switch applications.

An EPOC program made up of a number of classes — usually a user interface and an application engine.

The resource file written by an application programmer as part of the application source.

See also: resource file

In Quartz, the central area of the screen where the applcation view is displayed. Applications use this area in a way that is appropriate to the information that they display.

The main window in an application, which typically displays user data.

A file attribute indicating whether it has been saved since changes were made to it. The archive attribute is assigned to a file when it is created, replaced or written to.

See also: attribute

A processor with 16/32 bit embedded RISC from ARM.

An area containing the elements, or pointers to the elements of an array.

The number of elements which an array can hold or represent within the space currently allocated to its array buffer.

See also: array buffer

The number of elements by which the array capacity of an array is increased.

See also: array capacity

The ascent of a character cell defines the position of the baseline within every character cell of a font. It is the number of pixels from the top of the cell to the baseline. The baseline is not a pixel row itself, but occurs between two pixel rows.

The central user interface class. It creates and owns controls to display the application data, and centralises handling of command input from standard controls such as menus and toolbars.

Defines the properties of the application, such as UID and caption, and creates a new document.

See also: document class

Handles application start-up and accessing the application data (its document).

The frameworks that define the application structure and their basic user interface handling.

Access to the application data of the core applications.

The window associated with a control. If the control is a window-owning control, this is the window is owns. If the control is non-window-owning, it is the window in which the control is displayed, i.e., the window owned by the nearest window-owning-control above it in the run-time control hierarchy.

A request for an asynchronous service from an asynchronous service provider.

See also: asynchronous service provider

A system, component or class which provides a service asynchronously

Requests are indicated by function calls with a TRequestStatus reference parameter.

See also: Request status, active object, active scheduler, asynchronous request

Class 2 modem receive command.

A characteristic of a file or directory. Attributes determine the visibility of files and directories and whether or not they can be deleted or modified. Attributes include hidden, read-only and archive.

See also: entry, hidden, archive, read-only

A transaction which is operated automatically by a database, if no explicit transaction is begun when modifying the database.

See also: transaction

Repeated key events generated by the window server when a user holds down a key

An application which accesses the document data of an EPOC application