Launching a Symbian application from an application help

You can enable the device user to launch a Symbian application from an application help by providing a link in the application help.

Use the <a> tag in an HTML topic of your application help to provide link to a Symbian application.

Note: You must be aware of the path and UID of the Symbian application that you want to launch from your application help.

Steps

  1. Open the HTML topic from which you want to launch the Symbian application.

  2. Add the following code in the HTML topic from where you want to launch the Symbian application:

    <a href="app://cmd@localhost/name_of_the_application_exe/UID_of_the_application">Name_of_the_application</a>

    Where

    • name_of_the_application_exe is the name of the executable of the Symbian application that you want to launch.

    • UID_of_the_application is the UID of the Symbian application that you want to launch.

    • Name_of_the_application is the name of the Symbian application that you want to launch.

    For example:

    <a href="app://cmd@localhost/cshelphelloworld_0x2002c37b.exe/0x2002c37b">CS Help Helloworld</a>
  3. Save the HTML topic.

  4. Integrate the application help with your Symbian application and launch it. For details, see Integrating and testing the application help.

Results

The device user can now launch the Symbian application from the application help by performing the following steps:

  1. Launch the application help and navigate to the HTML topic in which you have added the link.

  2. Click the link to launch the Symbian application which is linked.