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Emulator for S60 series unstable?

5 replies · 2,623 views · Started 27 February 2003

Hi,
is it normal that the S60 emulator crashs often? No problems with a simple hello world. But when I tried to run some of the examples, some do always crash.

I tried some examples from 'Epoc32' folder (e.g. Bitmaps & Fonts). As soon as I press F1 (for choosing something form the application's menu) the emulator crashs. In debug version as well as in release version. It seams the other examples from 'Series60Ex' folder run fine (e.g. Grafics & Listbox).... never had a crashs here.
What's the differnce between those two kind of examples? *confused*

I did use Nokia's Symbian S60 series SDK 1.0 (and also tried 0.9).

Thanks for help, Moak

[quote="Moak"]What's the differnce between those two kind of examples?[/quote]

The examples in Epoc32Ex are not Series 60 applications. But I think they are provided because you can look for samples about some basic Symbian stuff there even if you cannot build working applications from those.

I have * NEVER * had any problem with the emulator !! and I have tried all the examples from the SDK (Series60Ex).
Do you use NT2000 ?? check that you don't have 'resident' applications running.

Domi.

As mentioned earlier I think you'll find that the applications in the epoc32 folder dont use the Series 60 application framework. As the Series 60 framework comes from the Symbian one its fine for displaying stuff in those examples. However the specific framework is essential for menus. As none have been defined (using Series60 framework) in the epoc32 examples when you try to bring up a menu it creashes as there is no menu defined (not even a blank one)

Some examples in Epoc32Ex can run on the Series 60 with little modifications in code.

Domi.