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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

Haiku R1 introduces the first version of a system-wide key store service, allows you as developer to outsource some of the credential and certificate management, as well as providing an infrastructure ...

Set the entry_ref's leaf name, freeing the storage allocated for any previous name and then making a copy of the new name. A filesystem entry represented as a name in a concrete directory. entry_refs ...

Defines the BScreen class and support structures. More ...

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).

Provides the BCursor class. More... B_CURSOR_ID_RESIZE_NORTH_EAST = 19 , B_CURSOR_ID_RESIZE_NORTH_WEST = 20 , B_CURSOR_ID_RESIZE_SOUTH_EAST = 21 , B_CURSOR_ID_RESIZE ...

Creates a new BSymLink object, initializes it according to the arguments, and sets InitCheck() to return the status of the initialization. This function creates an absolute pathname to the linked-to ...