[haiku-appserver] Re: input_server vs. BPortLink

  • From: "DarkWyrm" <bpmagic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-appserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 19:48:26 -0500 EST

> "DarkWyrm" <bpmagic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > the input_server is using the BPortLink class when built for 
> > > Haiku. 
> > > Is that still current? Or has it been replaced by the R5 method 
> > > in 
> > > the 
> > > mean time?
> > > 
> > > Also, since BPortLink is an example of this: don't introduce new 
> > > classes into the global namespace if they aren't meant to be 
> > > public. 
> > > Please use the BPrivate namespace - that's what this one is for.
> > Not to worry, Axel. There is no intention of bringing that out into 
> > the 
> > public -- it's just that no one's put it into the BPrivate 
> > namespace 
> > yet. :)
> 
> Okay, but it's still current I assume and will be the way the 
> input_server talks with the app_server, right? :-)
Yep. R5 used something used the BSession class to accomplish the same 
kind of task instead of BMessages.

--DW

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