[openbeos] Re: decoder config options

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:06:43 +0100 CET

Gabriele Biffi <mlist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Sure, i use them every day, xml too, but i've seen so much code 
> > (and 
> > wrote some, not Haiku in particular) redoing basically the same 
> > tedious 
> > work differently each time because there's no ultimate nor standard 
> > practice now. And there's some reason this discussion started after 
> > all :-)
> Yes, we need a common laoder/parser in some form. I was designing a 
> text 
> based one for AtomoCAD, but I never gone much far from a couple of 
> headers...

As I already said, the driver settings API is public in Haiku (in 
libroot.so, available for user apps), and it can just be used for that.
Translating this format to BMessages internally (like the net_server 
does) makes it very convenient to use.

Bye,
   Axel.


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