[interfacekit] Re: BLooper - PLEASE look at...

"Erik Jaesler" <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I'm going to weigh in with Axel and Ingo on this; sorry, Adi.  I had 
> misgivings anyway, and Axel and Ingo have done a good job of 
> articulating what I wasn't able to. I particularly like the idea of 
> being able to simply add ports, although if I understand correctly, 
> BWindow does some "special" processing on its messages from 
> app=5Fserver; 
> it might be nice to provide a way to accomplish that in the proposed 
> API.

Ah, right. Now I get, what Axel proposed the GetMessageFromPort() for. 
BWindow would override it and implement the `special' processing for 
its port (otherwise letting the base class version do the job).

> When Adi and I were talking about this, I found myself wishing for 
> wait=5Ffor=5Fmultiple=5Fobjects() -- I think that's the first time I've 
> ever 
> really wanted a Windows API available on BeOS. =3DP  Just out of 
> curiousity, Axel, how much work do you think that will require in the 
> kernel=3F

That would be interesting. Though, it wouldn't harm, if we don't have 
it for R1. We could do the polling thing for the time being and replace 
it as soon as the kernel provides the functionality.

CU, Ingo

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