[haiku-development] Re: Using the Haiku layout manager in app not part of Haiku
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:37:19 +0200
On 2009-04-11 at 01:28:40 [+0200], Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 5:09 PM, scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In Ryan's article he warns at the end "should only be used inside
> > Haiku core code, such as the included applications or preference
> > applets." Does this still apply? Should using this be avoided for
> > such things as the WebKit port, AbiWord Port, updates to Pe, and other
> > such things? I'm asking because this may affect how some of the GSoC
> > projects may be tackled.
>
> I certainly plan to use it in the browser. That warning is mainly
> because the layout API is not part of the "official" BeOS APIs that we
> are going to guarantee to support in R1. Though it probably won't
> change much, it isn't as set in stone as other APIs might be.
It will definitely change when we break binary compatibility. Anyway, it's
experimental API, that is there won't compatiblity support until it is
declared final. Hence an application written against the current layout API
might break earlier or later.
> But I still plan to use it in any software I write.
You do that on your own risk.
CU, Ingo
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