[openbeos] Re: broken struct mouse_map in InterfaceDefs.h

"Andrew Bachmann" <shatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The other alternative is to use a separate mouse map struct based 
> only on
> the buttons array, and then simply to interpret whatever you get 
> passed
> in as that kind of struct.  This suffers from the same kind of "evil" 
> as the
> anonymous union earlier, with respect to interpreting the same bytes 
> in
> a different way.  Okay, so maybe the ugly more_buttons is the best 
> option.

What about renaming those to other_buttons? Or just don't care at all 
and see how many applications will break?? :-)
I mean I think it's okay to break source compatibility sometimes - as 
long as binary compatibility is preserved. So we could export the old 
get_mouse_map() calling _get_mouse_map() and are done with it.
Thoughts on that?

Bye,
   Axel.

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