[openbeos] Re: Liblayout

Hi Mat,

> > 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.

I'd like to add that liblayout by Marco Nelissen works fine on Haiku (with a 
few minor exceptions like button rendering). So if your app uses liblayout, 
it will work fine on either Haiku, R5 or ZETA, provided the library is 
present.

Don't confuse liblayout with what Ingo is doing though - except for the 
common goal, Ingo's layout management doesn't have anything to do with 
liblayout.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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