[haiku-development] Re: Creating or porting an IDE [was Re: What's the status of Haiku?]

  • From: Jessica Hamilton <jessica.l.hamilton@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 14:11:03 +1200

On 2 September 2014 06:49, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Edward Robbins
> <edd.robbins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Ok, this is just hypothetical, so: If everything is going to be in separate
>> windows can they at least be dockable or with a parent window, or at least
>> have this configurable?
>
> I definitely agree with you on that. Fortunately Haiku as a system has
> that covered pretty well with Stack and Tile:
>
> http://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/gui.html#stack-tile
>
> I'm not sure where Stack and Tile is as far as an API so that by
> default an IDE (or whatever) is tiled properly when launched, but
> conceptually it is definitely possible to have a bunch of docked
> windows.

The private API only supports stacking currently.

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