[openbeos] Re: state-keeping app
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 05:40:50 CEST (+0200)
Ingo wrote:
> Actually I would provide the application programmer with a little bit
> more comfortable interface. E.g. two new BApplication hook methods
>
> status_t StoreState(BDataIO *state);
> status_t RestoreState(BDataIO *state);
>
> A BDataIO should be better than a BMessage, as applications with a
> greater amount of data to be saved/loaded certainly don't want to put
> it into a BMessage first, whereas the others are free to internally
> use
> a BMessage and just Flatten() it to/Unflatten() it from the BDataIO.
Something like this would be cool - and it would allow for a system
defined way of storing/restoring states at any time, not just on
shutdown.
Adios...
Axel.
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