MediaPlayer is the default player for all audio and video files. Thanks to its ffmpegbackend, a plethora of widely used formats are supported. Its simple interface has all the controls you'd expect: ...

This report covers hrev58043 through hrev58187. We’re now back to development “as usual” after the release of R1/beta5 (though some of the changes in this report did make it in to the release itself.) ...

This paper presents the implementation of system calls in haiku, and especially on x86 systems. The system call mechanism is what allows user land code to communicate with kernel land code. The whole ...

Haiku's Boot Loader Options can help when you experience hardware related problems or want to choose which Haiku installation to start, if you have more than one (maybe on an installation CD or USB ...

The fundamental concept of AGG is rendering vector paths, which define the enclosed area of a geometrical shape, into arbitrary frame buffers. The first step of this procedure is rasterizing a path to ...

This document explains the artistic subtleties of Haiku icons. If it leaves something unclear to you, that is, what rules to follow when designing an icon for the Haiku operating system, please bring ...

Welcome to the Haiku installation guide! This document will help you install Haiku on your computer, guiding you through the Haiku installation one step at a time. Depending on your hardware ...

Initializes the new BFont object as a copy of another font. If no font is specified, be_plain_font is used. Returns a unicode_block object that identifies which Unicode blocks the font supports. You ...

Unless the system entered KDL by itself, you can normally do that by invoking the keyboard shortcut Alt-SysReq-D. Note that in KDL your keyboard may not work. PS/2 keyboards always do, USB keyboards ...

Hook function that's invoked when the application receives a B_APP_ACTIVATED message. The message is sent when the application gains or loses active application status. The active flag tells you which ...

What is FUSE? FUSE is an acronym for "Filesystem in USErspace" and in essence allows an operating system to communicate with a file system through a userland progam. By providing this functionality ...

The following functions, types, and structures are used to convey basic information about the system, such as the number of CPUs, when the kernel was built, what time it is now and whether your ...