http://www.be.com/documentation/be_book/support/supp.html (Amiga Plus Extra No. 5/97, 05/1997)
Library: libbe.so
The Support Kit contains classes and utilities that any application can take advantage of--regardless of what kind of application it is or what it does. Among other things, it includes:
- The BArchivable protocol for objects that can archive themselves and be instantiated from their archives.
- The BList class, a container for keeping track of a number of data items, typically object pointers.
- The BLocker and BAutolock classes for implementing locking mechanisms.
- The BDataIO and BPositionIO protocols for objects that can be read and written, and the BMemoryIO and BMallocIO classes that implement the protocols. The BFile class in the Storage Kit also derives from BDataIO and BPositionIO.
- The BFlattenable protocol for objects that can write themselves to a flat buffer of bytes.
- Debugging tools, including the BStopWatch class.
- Common defined types and constants, including the standard integral types such as int32 and int64.
- The error codes for all the software kits.
- Type codes for identifying data types in messages, attributes, and resources.
- Utility functions like atomic_add(), write_16_swap(), and convert_to_utf8().
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