replicant

Managing Your Replicants: XShelfInspector and XContainer

Article contributed by admin on Mon, 2005-03-28 05:00
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The source discussed in this article can be found here

The original BeOS distribution from Be. Inc. contains two applications to help you manage your replicants: ShelfInspector and Container. Both can be found in the .../sample-code/application_kit/ folder. It's a good idea to read Be's original readme.txt concerning ShelfInspector. Both enhanced applications -- XShelfInspector and XContainer -- are working closely together like the original ones; however, some improvements have been added so one can use them more comfortably. The most interesting question is: How can I test my new replicant using these applications?

TransRepliShow: Dragging Replicants Transparently

Article contributed by admin on Mon, 2005-03-28 05:00

This article follows up on Dr. Reh's previous newsletter article, RepliShow: A Replicable Image Viewer. The code discussed is available here for your convenience.

Just remember Seth Flaxman's RepliShow: While dragging the replicant you only see the border lines of an empty rectangle - not very Be-like. However, only a few lines of code are necessary to obtain a rectangle containing the dragged image and looking transparently. Because the dragging action is managed by the BDragger class we need to do some subclassing. We create a new RepliDragger class inherited from BDragger. When this is done we override the hook function virtual void MouseDown( BPoint where ):

RepliShow: A Replicable Image Viewer

Article contributed by admin on Sat, 2005-01-29 05:00
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The original version of RepliShow was written by Seth Flaxman, and has been modified by Dr. Hartmut Reh. The source discussed in this article can be found here.

Today we'll be constructing a rather primitive application that displays images and is replicable. It will demonstrate two things: BeOS replicant technology and the Translation Kit.

Replicant technology is a standard part of BeOS, although it has not been widely used by many applications. You can see replicants in place in NetPositive and the Clock application that both ship with BeOS. You can tell something is replicable when it has a little dragger somewhere in its view, as shown below.

Replicants - More application than an application

Article contributed by mphipps on Mon, 2004-05-10 04:00
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Yep. I remember when Be first announced Replicants. They were going to be the next ActiveX. I wonder what ever happened to them.

The sad truth is that absolutely nothing happened to Replicants. Almost no one ever used them. No great mountains of applications ever came out for them. I was chatting with some people the other day on IRC and we wondered about this. Needing to write an article and not sure what to write, that commiseration came back to mind.

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