[haiku-development] Re: BMenu and friends
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:05:50 +0200 CEST
"Stefano Ceccherini" <stefano.ceccherini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm trying to remove most BMenu friend classes, by creating a
> MenuPrivate class which encapsulates all the accesses to the private
> menu functions/variables.
> BMenuBar, though, uses most of BMenu private stuff, so I was
> thinking... instead of adding lots of methods to MenuPrivate, would I
> break binary compatibility if I changed the "private" keyword in
> Menu.h to be "protected", so that BMenuBar, being a subclass, could
> automatically use all those methods ?
What Rene said, just be aware that you make these functions available
to all subclasses this way, ie. they would then be part of the public
API, and could not be changed anymore.
Bye,
Axel.
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