[haiku-3rdparty-dev] Re: Show Minimized Windows - how to?

  • From: Rene Gollent <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-3rdparty-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:15:34 -0400

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Stephan Aßmus <superstippi@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Forgot to mention... you can of course use only public APIs, i.e. scripting
> just like the YAB app did it ("hey" only uses public APIs). You'd have to
> study the BeBook chapters on scripting a bit, and then translate your hey
> script into C++ calls using the scripting API. You can also try to search

That'd indeed be an alternative route.

> for the implementation of the private APIs that Deskbar uses, and find out
> whether this implementation in turn only uses public APIs and then copy it,
> if need be. May result in the same thing. But code duplication is never a

No such luck, unfortunately, It uses a special app server message and
doesn't actually touch the public APIs at all. Agreed that it'd be
better for it to live in BRoster in any event though.

Regards,

Rene

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