Oreilly Free ebook : Programming the Be Operating System.pdf

The BeOS is a wonderful operating system waiting for applications. On its own, the system provides unmatched support for text, graphics, efficient multithreading, and other underpinnings of modern applications-but the user can't take advantage of them without suitable design and display tools. That's where you- and this book-come in.

While a number of vendors have ported, or promised to port, their applications to BeOS, it still needs the creativity of new programmers to flourish. Once an impressive number of advanced multimedia development and playback tools become available, more designers, developers, and users will find BeOS the platform they've been waiting for.

This book is the basic introduction to programming BeOS applications. It doesn't describe the most sophisticated features, but it gets you started and hopefully takes you to the point where you can make progress on your own by reading the company's reference documentation (also published by O'Reilly & Associates as the Be Developer's Guide and Be Advanced Topics).