Penrillian has recently released an enhanced version of its popular uSTL library for Symbian OS C++. This is great news for the developer community as it now supports both Series 60 Edition 3 and UIQ devices.

The major benefit of uSTL which is based on Mike Sharov’s uSTL; is that it generates very little object code; making it highly suitable for Symbian OS applications that must be downloaded over the air or installed in ROM. The latest release offers additional features and a more complete set of STL functionality.

The additional functionality includes all the algorithms defined by the C++ standard, plus some additional IO library functionality not present in Symbian OS 9:

• fstream, istringstream and ostringstream classes, and
• the vsnprintf function needed for robust Standard-C code.

“We’re pleased to release our latest version of uSTL. We’ve listened to the requests of the Symbian developer community and we have implemented many of the suggested changes. We now have a quality open source library, which is a big improvement on the previous version and it now supports both UIQ and Series 60 based devices.“ Charles Weir, Managing Director.

uSTL is available as a free download from www.penrillian.com/stl under the MIT Licence. There are virtually no restrictions on use.