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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 - System Overview - The Support Kit</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="TheSupportKit_Overview.html" title="The Support Kit" /><link rel="prev" href="TheSupportKit_Overview.html" title="The Support Kit" /><link rel="next" href="TheSupportKit_Archiving.html" title="Archiving" /></head><body><div id="header"><div id="headerT"><div id="headerTL"><a accesskey="p" href="TheSupportKit_Overview.html" title="The Support Kit"><img src="./images/navigation/prev.png" alt="Prev" /></a> <a accesskey="u" href="TheSupportKit_Overview.html" title="The Support Kit"><img src="./images/navigation/up.png" alt="Up" /></a> <a accesskey="n" href="TheSupportKit_Archiving.html" title="Archiving"><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 - System Overview - The Support Kit</div></div><div id="headerB">Prev: <a href="TheSupportKit_Overview.html">The Support Kit</a> Up: <a href="TheSupportKit_Overview.html">The Support Kit</a> Next: <a href="TheSupportKit_Archiving.html">Archiving</a></div><hr /></div><div class="section"><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="TheSupportKit_Overview_Introduction"></a>Introduction</h2></div></div></div><p>The Support Kit contains classes and utilities that any application can
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take advantage of. Among other things, it includes:</p><ul class="itemizedlist"><li><p>The <a class="link" href="BArchivable.html" title="BArchivable"><code class="classname">BArchivable</code></a>
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protocol for objects that can archive themselves and
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be instantiated from their archives.</p></li><li><p>The <a class="link" href="BBlockCache.html" title="BBlockCache"><code class="classname">BBlockCache</code></a>
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class provides a simple mechanism for caching fixed-length blocks of memory.</p></li><li><p>The <a class="link" href="BList.html" title="BList"><code class="classname">BList</code></a>
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class, a container for keeping track of a number of data items, typically object pointers.</p></li><li><p>The <a class="link" href="BLocker.html" title="BLocker"><code class="classname">BLocker</code></a> and
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<a class="link" href="BAutolock.html" title="BAutolock"><code class="classname">BAutolock</code></a>
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classes for implementing locking mechanisms.</p></li><li><p>The <a class="link" href="BDataIO.html" title="BDataIO"><code class="classname">BDataIO</code></a> and
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<a class="link" href="BPositionIO.html" title="BPositionIO"><code class="classname">BPositionIO</code></a>
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protocols for objects that can be read and written, and the
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<a class="link" href="BMemoryIO.html" title="BMemoryIO"><code class="classname">BMemoryIO</code></a> and
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<a class="link" href="BMallocIO.html" title="BMallocIO"><code class="classname">BMallocIO</code></a>
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classes that implement the protocols.</p></li><li><p>The <a class="link" href="BFlattenable.html" title="BFlattenable"><code class="classname">BFlattenable</code></a>
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protocol for objects that can write themselves to a flattened representation.</p></li><li><p>The <a class="link" href="BMessageRunner.html" title="BMessageRunner"><code class="classname">BMessageRunner</code></a>
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class sends a message over and over.</p></li><li><p>The <a class="link" href="BString.html" title="BString"><code class="classname">BString</code></a>
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class is an interface to smart string allocation,
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storage, and manipulation. Call me weak, but I can't live without it.</p></li><li><p>The <a class="link" href="BStopWatch.html" title="BStopWatch"><code class="classname">BStopWatch</code></a>
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class times your functions. Use it when you're developing your app.</p></li><li><p>Common defined types and constants, such as <span class="type">int32</span> and <span class="type">int64</span>.</p></li><li><p>The error codes for (theoretically) all the software kits. (Some
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error code may have snuck into other kits.)</p></li><li><p>Type codes for identifying data types in messages, attributes, and
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resources.</p></li><li><p>Utility functions such as
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<a class="link" href="TheSupportKit_Functions.html#atomic_add" title="atomic_add(), atomic_and(), atomic_or()"><code class="function">atomic_add()</code></a>,
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<a class="link" href="TheSupportKit_Functions.html#swap_data" title="swap_data(), is_type_swapped()"><code class="function">swap_data()</code></a>, and
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<a class="link" href="TheSupportKit_Functions.html#convert_to_utf8" title="convert_to_utf8(), convert_from_utf8()"><code class="function">convert_to_utf8()</code></a>.</p></li><li><p><a class="xref" href="TheSupportKit_TLS.html" title="Thread Local Storage">Thread Local Storage</a>
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functions that let you define global variables
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whose values depend on the thread from which they're accessed. These
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functions are handy when you're porting code that was designed for a
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single-threaded system.</p></li></ul></div><div id="footer"><hr /><div id="footerT">Prev: <a href="TheSupportKit_Overview.html">The Support Kit</a> Up: <a href="TheSupportKit_Overview.html">The Support Kit</a> Next: <a href="TheSupportKit_Archiving.html">Archiving</a> </div><div id="footerB"><div id="footerBL"><a href="TheSupportKit_Overview.html" title="The Support Kit"><img src="./images/navigation/prev.png" alt="Prev" /></a> <a href="TheSupportKit_Overview.html" title="The Support Kit"><img src="./images/navigation/up.png" alt="Up" /></a> <a href="TheSupportKit_Archiving.html" title="Archiving"><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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