[interfacekit] Re: app_server specs

>in the works. As I've mentioned before I'm working on a BLooper and 
BHandler, 
>the main reason being that all BHandler, BLooper, BApplication, and 
BWindow 
>all have tendrils in each other. That reminds me - how should I test 
the code 
>for them?

Write up the use cases and you will know, grasshopper. ;)

>To enumerate my current plans:
>1) Complete BHandler
>2) Complete BLooper
>3) Complete BApplication
>4) Complete BWindow
>5) Complete BView

So are you taking ownership of these classes, or are you simply banging 
stuff together for app_server prototyping?  If it's the former, I want 
to be working with you on them.

>I have a big problem concerning BBitmaps: the actual buffer for the 
bitmap 
>data is an area which is shared by the server. No problem, right? The 
problem 
>is in the allocation. George [Hoffman] wrote a memory manager from 
scratch 
>when he did this part of the app_server. I have no experience in this 
area 
>and no clue how to do it, either.

*Why* did he write a custom allocator?  The reason will dictate, in 
large part, *how* it was written.

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