[interfacekit] Re: BApplication (or, OBAppplication)

>Does anyone have any insight on how to hijack the BLooper's default port
>for message-receiving in the BApplication class?
Not hard. The port's name is AppLooperPort. All you have to do is call 
set_port_owner on the port you intend to steal.

>Obviously, the virtual Run() function must be overloaded (because
>otherwise the BApplication will spawn another thread.  Then we lose
>(unfortunately) the loop which shunts messages from the port on over to
>the BMessageQueue.
>
>Fortuitously, it seems that BApplication is a friend of BLooper, giving 
>it access to some of the private parts, but there must be a more elegant
>way of doing this.
>
>Isaac
You may or may not even need to do this. If the subject is any indicator, I *
have* a skeleton OBApplication and last I knew, I think Erik was working on 
it.

--DW

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