FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: hello world...

["Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Marius Soutier wrote on Sat, 18 Jan 2003 20:13:35 +0100:
> I today downloaded the BeBook, maybe I can learn from it. Please tell me 
> where I can start.

Besides the getting started programming stuff in 
http://open-beos.sourceforge.net/faq.php you can find a lot of material in the 
old developer's library somewhere inside 
http://www.beatjapan.org/mirror/www.be.com/ and in the Be newsletters that it 
refers to.  You can also get the newsletters from 
http://www.bebits.com/app/3140 as well as lots of other BeOS stuff (it's the 
main download site).

So, read the BeBook http://bang.dhs.org/be/bebook.html and in particular the 
chapters explaining the high level view of each part of the OS.  Then look at 
the newsletters, and search for some examples, the "Doodle" program is a good 
example of a complete application (drawing, menus, printing, etc).  Try 
compiling it and investigate how it works.  The source code isn't in the 
newsletter or on the mirror so do a Google search for "BeOS Doodle" and you'll 
find sites like http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/beos/samples/intro/ which 
have it.

- Alex