Deskbar

Declared in:  be/be_apps/Deskbar/Deskbar.h
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There's a new system for adding items to Deskbar's shelf. Instead of using "live" BView objects, you create an add-on that implements the Deskbar item-instantiation function, and then pass a pointer to the add-on to BDeskbar::AddItem().

An advantage of the add-on system is that Deskbar items are now persistent across boots.

instantiate_deskbar_item()

BView *instantiate_deskbar_item(void)

In Beta 1, this function is called instantiate_deskbar_addon(). The name will be changed in the next Beta.

This is the deskbar-item instantiation function that you implement in an add-on. The function should return a BView object that knows how to describe itself in an archive. The add-on that contains this function doesn't have to live in a particular directory.

AddItem()

status_t AddItem(entry_ref *addon, int32 *id = NULL) status_t AddItem(BView *view, int32 *id = NULL) deprecated

AddItem() puts a new item on the Deskbar's shelf. To create the new item, Deskbar loads addon and calls the instantiate_deskbar_item() function that should be implemented therein. The id argument, if supplied, is set to the unique id number that Deskbar generates for the new item.