The Be Book
Welcome to the Be Book.
BeOS is the, now unsupported product, from ACCESS Co.. There is however a strong following which deserve an updated Be Book and here it is…
The BeBook details the Application Programming Interface (API) to the BeOS operating system.
We want to express our gratitude to ACCESS Co. for showing their support for the Haiku Project by allowing the distribution of the BeBook and the Be Newsletters as legacy documents. Not do they only hold historical value, but these documents are also a very valuable reference resource for all Haiku developers. We also want to thank Simon Kennedy for his work on formatting these documents.
This document is split into 3 parts :-
Provides an overview of the functionality provided by the System broken down into Kits. This should show you how the various classes interact with each other to produce the complete system.
Details the classes/methods, what they do, which parameters you need to pass, the values they return etc.
Details needed to program various parts of the BeOS operating system not covered under the kits e.g. How to create add-ons for the Tracker, create device drivers etc.
The following conventions are used in this book.
Class names are shown as classname.
Method names are shown as methodname().
Function names are shown as function().
Method and function parameters are shown as parameter.
Types as type.
Constants as constant.
Variable names are shown as name.
Keys are shown as keyname.
Key combinations are shown as key1+key2 which means you should press the indicated keys at the same time.
Filenames are shown as filename.
