General Constants

Application Messages

Declared in: be/app/AppDefs.h

  • B_ABOUT_REQUESTED

  • B_APP_ACTIVATED

  • B_ARGV_RECEIVED

  • B_PULSE

  • B_QUIT_REQUESTED

  • B_READY_TO_RUN

  • B_REFS_RECEIVED

These constants represent the system messages that are recognized and given special treatment by BApplication and BLooper dispatchers. Application messages concern the application as a whole, rather than any particular window thread. See the introduction to this chapter and the BApplication class for details.

See also: "Application Messages"

Cursor Constants

Declared in: be/app/AppDefs.h

  • B_HAND_CURSOR

  • B_I_BEAM_CURSOR

These constants contain all the data needed to set the cursor to the default hand image or to the standard I-beam image for text selection.

See also: BApplication::SetCursor()

Message Constants

Declared in: be/app/AppDefs.h

  • B_REPLY

  • B_NO_REPLY

  • B_MESSAGE_NOT_UNDERSTOOD

  • B_SAVE_REQUESTED

  • B_CANCEL

  • B_SIMPLE_DATA

  • B_MIME_DATA

  • B_UPDATE_STATUS_BAR

  • B_RESET_STATUS_BAR

  • B_NODE_MONITOR

  • B_QUERY_UPDATE

  • B_CUT

  • B_COPY

  • B_PASTE

  • B_SELECT_ALL

  • B_SET_PROPERTY

  • B_GET_PROPERTY

  • B_CREATE_PROPERTY

  • B_DELETE_PROPERTY

  • B_GET_SUPPORTED_SUITES

These constants mark messages that the system sometimes puts together, but that aren't dispatched like system messages. See the Message Protocols appendix for details.

See also: BMessage::SendReply(), the BTextView class in the Interface Kit