[openbeos] Re: A new BMessage implementation (Message4)

> Now that the message reader is supposed to work, I should
> find out why  the Deskbar still doesn't show the logo (or
> any other bitmaps) when compiled under Dano - also with the
> new build system.

Does the Deskbar really store it's logo as a BMessage? I thought it was
a bitmap resource.

Actually the reader is only supposed to work ;). As I stated it is not
tested.
Is it possible that this:

    int32 count = *(int32 *)fieldBuffer + dataOffset;

is actually wrong and should be more like that:

    int32 count = *(int32 *)(fieldBuffer + dataOffset);

It just occured to me as I read my commit over. I cannot test that right
now as I'm not at home.

> Do we want to make it the default already?

It depends; if you want to take another risk right now. Currently we
have bugs comming in because of the new build system, the app_server
refactoring and the new clipping code. It gets kind of difficult to
tell what is what. Especially since a message that is not delivered can
very well look like something in the app_server doesn't work. I'd rather
test and debug it some more. There is at least one known issue with
Message4 and I havn't havily tested the R5 reader/writer just yet.

> On R5, the settings were seemingly corrupted and got replaced
> with default values...

That's very probable of course. Then I'm glad that this won't happen
with Haiku and Message4 ;).

Regards
Michael

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