Be Advanced Topics: The Official Documentation for the BeOS (B E Development Team)

DIVpWhat chance is there for a new desktop operating system to succeed in these days of Microsoft dominance? How about when that operating system is positioned as an alternative to the Macintosh, itself an endangered platform?/ppActually, the chances are pretty good! Just as Linux quickly established itself as the OS of choice for the independent UNIX developer community, the BeOS, available for both PowerPCs and Intel systems, provides exciting new features for independent multimedia developers. Anyone who has seen the BeOS in action experiences immediate techno-lust. Here is an operating system that speaks multimedia, threading, and multiprocessing as one who was raised speaking them from birth rather than as languages painfully acquired through second-rate schooling. This is the ideal platform for high-end graphics and multimedia, featuring Silicon Graphics performance and more on commodity desktop hardware.br/ppiBe Advanced Topics/i picks up where the iBe Developer's Guide/i leaves off. It's the official programmer's reference manual to advanced topics for this revolutionary new operating system. Much as iInside Macintosh/i galvanized the Mac developer community nearly 15 years ago with its under-the-hood access to the new art of GUI programming, iBe Advanced Topics/i provides developers with access to the internals of the first really new operating system in many years. Describing the less commonly used kits in the operating system -- the kits that don't pertain to every application -- iBe Advanced Topics/i shows you when and how to use them. Anyone who wants to design specialized applications for the BeOS will find this book invaluable./ppTopics covered include:/p ulliiThe Media Kit/i: Real-time processing of audio and video data/li liiThe Midi Kit/i: MIDI data generation and processing, including Headspace® General MIDI synthesizer/li liiThe Game Kit/i: Lets your game take over the machine/li liiThe OpenGL Kit/i: An implementation of the OpenGL® 3D graphics interface/li liiThe Network Kit/i: An interface to the network and mail/li /ulpAlso included in iBe Advanced Topics/i is a third-party CD-ROM containing tools, applications, and other freeware designed specifically for the BeOS./p/div