Penrillian releases an open C++ Standard Template Library for UIQ 3
18 August 2006
Penrillian has announced the free availability of an open C++ Standard Template Library (STL) for Symbian OS. Availability of the Standard Template Library has been one of the most common requests from Symbian OS programmers looking for a ready-made set of common classes to speed the development process. This first release has been tested on two UIQ3 phones and is available under the MIT License as a free download from Penrillian's website.The library is a port of Mike Sharov's uSTL implementation. It has the particular feature of generating small object code sizes - an important requirement for most UIQ applications. The library provides a subset of the full C++ STL standard library, along with some features to improve usability for Symbian OS. The additional features include:
- Easy interchange between Symbian OS descriptors and std::string UTF strings
- Using User::Leave for memory errors.
"The need for an STL has been raised many times at trade shows, on online forums and by our own development team. Having applied the time and resource necessary to build this STL, we're happy to be able to offer it to the wider Symbian development community," said Charles Weir, managing director of Penrillian.