[interfacekit] Re: Be's ColumnListView

"burton666@xxxxxxxxx" <burton666@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Some time ago there was a discussion about Be's ColumnListView
> implementation (the one Vision uses).
> IIRC, we agreed to include it into our repository, and to set the 
> build 
> system to compile it as a static library.
> Ingo said we should try to keep it binary compatible with the Dano/
> Zeta 
> one, but if it's a static lib, I can't see the problem, since it 
> would be always
> compiled into the executable, right ?

I think so, too.

> Anyway, since I started using it for one of my projects, I also 
> started to 
> reformat its source code to comply to our guidelines, so if you want 
> I can 
> commit it into our repository when it's ready.

Sounds good to me (naturally) :-))

> BTW, there are some accessor methods which aren't declared as const. 
> Should I "fix" that?

Of course, that would break BC, but I wouldn't care about it.

> Another thing: BColumnListView(but also OpenTracker) relies on 
> ObjectList.h (which we already have in our repository), and on the
> implementation of _PointerList_ (at least, on its constructor and 
> destructor), 
> which we'll have to implement (I don't think it's hard). I had to 
> write a simple

I think that shouldn't be too hard; a "nm libbe.so | grep 
_PointerList_" comes back with these:

001ce9f4 T BinarySearchIndexByPredicate__C13_PointerList_PCvPFPCvPv_i
001ce95c T BinarySearchIndex__C13_PointerList_PCvPFPCvPCvPv_iPv
001ce8cc T BinarySearchIndex__C13_PointerList_PCvPFPCvPCv_i
001ce82c T BinarySearch__C13_PointerList_PCvPFPCvPCvPv_iPv
001ce798 T BinarySearch__C13_PointerList_PCvPFPCvPCv_i
001ce280 T EachElement__13_PointerList_PFPvPv_PvPv
001ce700 T HSortItems__13_PointerList_PFPCvPCvPv_iPv
001ce5e0 T HSortItems__13_PointerList_PFPCvPCv_i
001ce2e8 T ReplaceItem__13_PointerList_lPv
001ce440 T SortItems__13_PointerList_PFPCvPCvPv_iPv
001ce334 T SortItems__13_PointerList_PFPCvPCv_i
001ce250 T _._13_PointerList_
001ce1d4 T __13_PointerList_RC13_PointerList_
001ce214 T __13_PointerList_lb
001f9564 W __tf13_PointerList_
0028b930 B __ti13_PointerList_
0022f240 V _vt.13_PointerList_  

> constructor and destructor to make it compile under the OBOS / Win32
> environment I'm using (which is the most advanced OBOS environment 
> available as now, BTW :)))

What a pity :-)

Bye,
   Axel.

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