[interfacekit] Re: Messaging Milestone

> On 2003-08-26 at 08:37:55 [+0200], Erik Jaesler wrote:
> > I'm very pleased to announce the completion of an important milestone
> > (to me, at least =): the first successful test of messaging using
> > libopenbeos.so.  There are many key BeAPI classes involved in this,
> > including BHandler, BLooper, BMessage, and BMessenger (just to name a
> > few).  Virtually all the active members of the "App/Interface/Support
> > Kits and app_server" team and several folks that aren't "officially"
> > members contributed.  Way to go, guys!! =)  The very simple test has
> > been checked into the tree under
> > src/tests/kits/app/messaging/first_light.  What was really amazing to me
> > is once I had written the test, it just *worked*.  I didn't have to
> > debug *anything*.  This stands as a testament to the hard work everyone
> > has put in and the usefulness of the enormous number of unit tests that
> > have validated the code throughout development.
> >
> > There's still plenty of testing and debugging work left to do, but this
> > is so exciting to me that I had to share with everybody.  I've been
> > waiting and working for this for well over a year, and I'm so stoked I
> > can barely see straight! ;)
>
> Great! So that leaves us basically with the app server and related classes
> to be finished before we can seriously start to make the library
> independent of libbe, allowing us to migrate it to our kernel, finally.
> Awesome! There is indeed light at the end of the tunnel! :-)

    Well... to stroke you even futher I must announce that:

    [ I've just compiled it 5 hours ago]
****    BView is *more* than 95% complete. :-))))  ****

    With BWindow being at 90+%...
    All I have to do now is to *strongly* :-) tie BWindow and BView. It will
be done in a couple of days.

    I still have some work to do on BWindow so in my opinion in max 2 weeks
I'll be ready with them.

    I also talked to DW about me working on app_server, and he agreed.
ServerWindow and Layer classes will be some of my future targets.

    About BShelf class... it will be implemented after we SEE a BButton :-).

BTW: BView( and form tomorrow BWindow :-) uses BSession as the communication
class. PortLink has been redesigned to use a fixed 4K buffer - it actually
is a subclass of BSession :-).

All these changes will come into CVS in 2 days, I hope.


Adi.

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