Please help with AIF file...

[alex80it]

Hello Everybody!

I am desperately trying to make my program display a customized icon instead
of the default jigsaw one.
I have successfully made my mbm file, but other than that I am at loss.
(mbm file contains now a 42x29 icon and mask, and a 44x44 icon and mask)
I am using the Borland C++BuilderX IDE, and have no clue as to how to
achieve my goal.

Could someone be so patient as to give me straightforward step-by-step
instructions both on what to write in the various files, AND how to have them
compiled the right way?

I've been reading through tons of docs before posting, but I found it all a bit
confusing, and nothing of what I tried worked.

Thanks in advance,

Alex

[symbianyucca]

just place thiss stuff into a file named My_App.rss (where My-App, is your applications executable name)

//--start of My_App.rss

#include <aiftool.rh>

RESOURCE AIF_DATA
{
app_uid=0x11111111;// change to your app UID
caption_list=
{
CAPTION { code=ELangEnglish; caption="My App"; }
};

num_icons=2;

embeddability= KAppNotEmbeddable;
hidden=KAppNotHidden;
newfile= KAppDoesNotSupportNewFile;
}

//-- end of My_App.rss

Then just use command line tools to make the aif :
aiftool My-App My-App.mbm

The My-App.mbm, needs to have small icon first, then mask for it and then the bigger icon and as last its mask.

yucca

[alex80it]

Okay, I did this and the AIF file gets created.

I even found the AIF Wizard in BCBX, which basically guided me through the
same procedure as you told me with a sequence of dialog boxes.
The problem is not yet solved, though, because when I put the app on
my phone it keeps its default jigsaw icon in the menu, and when I try to run it
it just goes back to the main menu without displaying anything at all.
If I browse to the app's folder and simply erase the .aif that got copied there,
the app goes back to working normally...

I own a Nokia 3230, and that's the platform I'm testing on...

I can't use the epoc emulator for this, as I am using RFs and RFile in my app,
which give me a linker error if I build for UDEB (while the file I/O part works
perfectly if I build for UREL)

Thanks for your reply, and for any further help... :)

Alex

[symbianyucca]

it should work, as long as you have excatly same UID defined in your aif rss-file, in your mmp file as well as your app returns same UID.

Further on, you should have same name with your app folder as you have with your aif & app files.

Then the resulting AIF file should work, so if you still have problems, try defining whole path with aiftool when building the aif file.

yucca

[alex80it]

I checked all of that, and even tried setting up a blank project just to
put an icon on it.
Doing NOTHING with it except creating its AIF with mbm and this rss file:

#include <aiftool.rh>

CHARACTER_SET UTF8

RESOURCE AIF_DATA

{

    app_uid = 0x1000003;

    num_icons = 4;

    embeddability=KAppNotEmbeddable;

    newfile=KAppDoesNotSupportNewFile;

    hidden=KAppNotHidden;

    caption_list=

    {



        CAPTION { code=ELangEnglish; caption="IconTest2"; },
        CAPTION { code=ELangGerman; caption="IconTest2"; }

    };
}

Which was generated automatically, so I figure it's correct.
If I run my IconTest2 program on the emulator without making the AIF, it obviously
works (displays a blank screen), but if I add the AIF to the project it doesn't
start, just flips back to the menu, without displaying any errors (behaving just
like my cell phone, so it's not a specific model's compatibility problem)

I am doing this using Series 60 SDK 2.1, is there any known issue about this?

Thanks for your patience! :)

Alex

[alex80it]

Problem solved, I hadn't noticed it kept insisting on 4 icons, whereas they were
2 icons and 2 masks!!
I changed it to 2, and it works!

Thanks a million, Yucca!
:D

Alex