[openbeos] Re: Liblayout

On 2006-07-03 at 03:15:04 [+0200], Mat Hounsell <mat_geek@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Bonefish,
> I have seen quite a lot of progress on liblayout. I know the R5 binary
> compatability requirements and the limits that imposes. I was wondering if 
> you
> intend to make it available (w/ assistance) to an BeOS derivative? Namely 
> when
> it is doen could I use it in my apps and know they will work on Zeta as 
> well?

Probably not. The main problem is that the layout stuff needs to be built 
into BView (and BWindow) and its the derived classes to work nicely. 
Otherwise one had to do something like Marco Nelissen did with liblayout and 
subclass all those classes, which I don't intend to do.

Also note that while layout management will probably be part of Haiku R1, it 
will be private API for that release, only used by applications in our 
repository. Everyone can use it, of course, but applications will likely 
need to be recompiled for the following release.

CU, Ingo

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