A BRegion object comprises a set of rectangles in a two-dimensional coordinate system. The rectangles needn't overlap; a single BRegion can contain a little rectangle way down there, a big one over ...

nipos adjusted Icon-O-Matic to open file panels in the same folder as the current file, fixed a bug in FontDemo that was preventing direct selection of font families, fixed Terminal to not change view ...

Below you will find documentation on the Application Programming Interface (API) of the Haiku operating system. This API describes the internals of the operating system allowing developers to write ...

Although it is not necessary to use these classes to make use of the corresponding layouts, it does make things easier. Once you have an understanding of what each BLayout does, you can start ...

In general, you should name your jobs/services after the application signature (if possible), and name the configuration files accordingly (in each case without the "application/" prefix).

The filesystems are organized in a hierarchy starting at the root directory (which has the path '/'). Unlike on typical UNIX systems, the root filsystem is not a mass storage filesystem that the OS ...

There are several types of objects a FS module has to deal with directly or indirectly: A vnode is the VFS representation of a node. As soon as an access to a node is requested, the VFS creates a ...

The Application Kit should be your starting point if you want to write native Haiku applications with a GUI. The application kit does exactly as its name suggests; it is the basis for Haiku ...

A modular, add-ons based network stack Two shared libraries, libnet.so and libnetapi.so A stack driver, acting as interface between the network stack and libnet.so Basic network apps A modular GUI ...

Although it is not necessary to use these classes to make use of the corresponding layouts, it does make things easier. Once you have an understanding of what each BLayout does, you can start ...

The introduction of USB standardized the way many devices connected to a whole range of different computers and operating systems. It introduced a standard that was capable of getting rid of all the ...

The Locale Kit provides a set of tools for internationalizing, localizing and translating your software. This includes not only replacing string with their translations at runtime, but also more ...