Hey there,I recently fixed up the DriveSetup preferences app a bit ( patch located on the trac at http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/1347 ), but came a bit stuck when i got to shelling out the Partition & Initialisation code.
Looking through the Haiku storage kit, i first noticed that BPartition exposes code which allows me to obtain a BDiskDeviceParameterEditor, via any of four functions:
status_t BPartition::GetParameterEditor(BDiskDeviceParameterEditor **editor) status_t BPartition::GetContentParameterEditor (BDiskDeviceParameterEditor **editor) status_t BPartition::GetInitializationParameterEditor(const char *system, BDiskDeviceParameterEditor **editor) const status_t BPartition::GetChildCreationParameterEditor(const char *system, BDiskDeviceParameterEditor **editor) const
Sad to say, i am left clueless as to which one of these functions i should use for which circumstance - i thought the original DriveSetup only had parameter editor's for partitioning and initialising file systems?
This confusion is further compounded by the fact that nobody seems to have implemented BDiskDeviceParameterEditor. Yikes!
Looking a bit further, i found this rather interesting PartitioningDialog class, which seemed to require a BDiskScannerParameterEditor. "Great!" i thought, "Maybe i can use this to at least have a partitioning dialog?". Sadly though, it seems the only way i can get an instance of a BDiskScannerParameterEditor is by invoking a non-existent (or rather, commented out and not implemented) BDiskScannerPartitionAddOn::CreateEditor function, which even references a BSession class, which like the BDiskScannerParameterEditor i cannot find anywhere.
So to summarise, there seems to be two possible ways i can modify partition's or initialise file systems, non of which are really implemented.
Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions on this rather dreadful situation?
Regards, James