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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>The Be Book</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="be_book.css" type="text/css" media="all" /><link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon" href="./images/favicon.ico" /><!--[if IE]>
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<![endif]--><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.73.2" /><meta name="keywords" content="Access, BeOS, BeBook, API" /><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="The Be Book" /><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="The Be Book" /><link rel="prev" href="LegalNotice.html" title="Legal Notice" /><link rel="next" href="SystemOverview.html" title="System Overview" /></head><body><div id="header"><div id="headerT"><div id="headerTL"><a accesskey="p" href="LegalNotice.html" title="Legal Notice"><img src="./images/navigation/prev.png" alt="Prev" /></a> <a accesskey="u" href="index.html" title="The Be Book"><img src="./images/navigation/up.png" alt="Up" /></a> <a accesskey="n" href="SystemOverview.html" title="System Overview"><img src="./images/navigation/next.png" alt="Next" /></a></div><div id="headerTR"><div id="navigpeople"><a href="http://www.haiku-os.org"><img src="./images/People_24.png" alt="haiku-os.org" title="Visit The Haiku Website" /></a></div><div class="navighome" title="Home"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html"><img src="./images/navigation/home.png" alt="Home" /></a></div><div class="navigboxed" id="navigindex"><a accesskey="i" href="ClassIndex.html" title="Index">I</a></div><div class="navigboxed" id="naviglang" title="English">en</div></div><div id="headerTC">The Be Book</div></div><div id="headerB">Prev: <a href="LegalNotice.html">Legal Notice</a> Up: <a href="index.html">The Be Book</a> Next: <a href="SystemOverview.html">System Overview</a></div><hr /></div><div class="preface"><div xmlns="" xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" class="titlepage"><div><div xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"><h2 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="TheBeBook_Introduction"></a>Introduction</h2></div></div></div><p>Welcome to the Be Book.</p><p>BeOS is the, now unsupported product, from
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<a class="link" href="http://www.access-company.com/home.html">ACCESS Co.</a>.
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There is however a strong following
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which deserve an updated Be Book and here it is…</p><div class="simplesect"><div xmlns="" xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" class="titlepage"><div><div xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"><h4 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="TheBeBook_Introduction_What_Is"></a>What Is The BeBook?</h4></div></div></div><p>The BeBook details the Application Programming Interface (API) to
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the BeOS operating system.</p></div><div class="simplesect"><div xmlns="" xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" class="titlepage"><div><div xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"><h4 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="TheBeBook_Introduction_Acknowledgements"></a>Acknowledgments</h4></div></div></div><p>We want to express our gratitude to
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<a class="link" href="http://www.access-company.com/">ACCESS Co.</a> for
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showing their support for the
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<a class="link" href="http://www.haiku-os.org">Haiku Project</a> by allowing
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the distribution of the BeBook and the
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<a class="link" href="">Be Newsletters</a>
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as legacy documents. Not do they only hold historical value, but these
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documents are also a very valuable reference resource for all Haiku
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developers. We also want to thank Simon Kennedy for his work on
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formatting these documents.</p></div><div class="simplesect"><div xmlns="" xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" class="titlepage"><div><div xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"><h4 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="TheBeBook_Introduction_Organization"></a>Organization of This Document</h4></div></div></div><p>This document is split into 3 parts :-</p><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term"><a class="xref" href="SystemOverview.html" title="System Overview">System Overview</a></span></dt><dd><p>Provides an overview of the functionality provided by the System broken down into Kits.
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This should show you how the various classes interact with each other to produce the complete
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system.</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><a class="xref" href="ClassesAndMethod.html" title="Classes And Methods">Classes And Methods</a></span></dt><dd><p>Details the classes/methods, what they do, which parameters you need to pass,
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the values they return etc.</p></dd><dt><span class="term"><a class="xref" href="SpecialTopics.html" title="Special Topics">Special Topics</a></span></dt><dd><p>Details needed to program various parts of the BeOS operating system not covered under the kits
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e.g. How to create add-ons for the Tracker, create device drivers etc.</p></dd></dl></div><div class="simplesect"><div xmlns="" xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" class="titlepage"><div><div xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"><h4 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="title"><a id="TheBeBook_Introduction_ConventionsUsed"></a>Conventions Used in This Document</h4></div></div></div><p>The following conventions are used in this book.</p><ul class="itemizedlist"><li><p>Class names are shown as <code class="classname">classname</code>.</p></li><li><p>Method names are shown as <code class="methodname">methodname()</code>.</p></li><li><p>Function names are shown as <code class="function">function()</code>.</p></li><li><p>Method and function parameters are shown as <code class="parameter">parameter</code>.</p></li><li><p>Types as <span class="type">type</span>.</p></li><li><p>Constants as <code class="constant">constant</code>.</p></li><li><p>Variable names are shown as <code class="varname">name</code>.</p></li><li><p>Keys are shown as <span class="keycap">keyname</span>.</p></li><li><p>Key combinations are shown as <span class="keycap">key1</span>+<span class="keycap">key2</span>
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which means you should press the indicated keys at the same time.</p></li><li><p>Filenames are shown as <code class="filename">filename</code>.</p></li></ul></div></div><div id="footer"><hr /><div id="footerT">Prev: <a href="LegalNotice.html">Legal Notice</a> Up: <a href="index.html">The Be Book</a> Next: <a href="SystemOverview.html">System Overview</a> </div><div id="footerB"><div id="footerBL"><a href="LegalNotice.html" title="Legal Notice"><img src="./images/navigation/prev.png" alt="Prev" /></a> <a href="index.html" title="The Be Book"><img src="./images/navigation/up.png" alt="Up" /></a> <a href="SystemOverview.html" title="System Overview"><img src="./images/navigation/next.png" alt="Next" /></a></div><div id="footerBR"><div><a href="http://www.haiku-os.org"><img src="./images/People_24.png" alt="haiku-os.org" title="Visit The Haiku Website" /></a></div><div class="navighome" title="Home"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html"><img src="./images/navigation/home.png" alt="Home" /></a></div></div><div id="footerBC"><a href="http://www.access-company.com/home.html" title="ACCESS Co."><img alt="Access Company" src="./images/access_logo.png" /></a></div></div></div><div id="licenseFooter"><div id="licenseFooterBL"><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/" title="Creative Commons License"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="https://licensebuttons.net/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/88x31.png" /></a></div><div id="licenseFooterBR"><a href="./LegalNotice.html">Legal Notice</a></div><div id="licenseFooterBC"><span id="licenseText">This work is licensed under a
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