I would like to create an application for the 9290 using Appforge's Mobile VB. With this utility, I am able to create a text file on the device which by default is opened with the web browser. The Web Browser does not have print capibility so I would like to open the file in the word program.
I believe that I understand correctly that the file will need a UID and rich text encoding for this to happen.
Can someone tell me how a file should be formated so that it can be opened in word?
Thanks for any help you can give.
Bob
Don't believe it actualy needs a uid of it's own.
Try searching for "epoc word standard/encoding";
I searched this forum and found nothing so far. I will search the net next.
Do you know of a site where I can get more info.
Thanks for the help!!!
Not really ... but as I understand it, the word format used by epoc/symbian is quiet old so you get lucky on the web.
Also check out the sdk, or maybe the http://forum.nokia.com
Good luck!
To be quite old, information about the format is hidden real well.
I must be blind but have been searching off and on for several weeks and can't find a thing.
When I copy a file from the device without converting it, the contents seem to be in machine language.
I have posted a request for info in the Nokia forum and am waiting for a reply.
Really all I want to do is print from the phone as the word app does.
The search goes on.............
Thanks for your help.
bb
Right you need to know the UID for the Word app (a specific code that is assigned to one and only one app, and is how the Symbian OS sorts out file associations). Secondly you need to know the file format of Word Docs, I've looked into this before and it is NOT a standard UTF-8 Unicode as used by most systems, but UTF-7 Unicode (from what I am told), as this is the format used in the old Epoc systems and carried through. Hence (if you are reading it as a UTF-8 doc) you are probably getting garbage out of the files. For this reason an alternative word processor would be handy that wouldn't need all the files converting (as not reading/writing plain text is dumb).
Possibly you could also create a standard RTF file, since the Nokia 9200 Word has its built-in converter.
The converter is only used for copying files, and those files will be associated with the web browser again.