storage.
* Remove reduntant information from the header (field_count vs. fields_size).
* Remove checksums previously used to validate the message passing by area
mechanism.
* Move variables that are purely used by the instance out of the header and into
the BMessage object.
* Use more sensible types for the different message fields.
* Reduce some field sizes to realistic values.
* Make size_t values into uint32 values so the message format will not change
when later moving to 64 bits.
* Pack the structures used for flat message storage so it doesn't change
because of padding.
* Fix message passing by area. It never worked because the created area was
never actually filled with any data!
* Some more allocation checks with graceful fallbacks (should be all now).
* Some more checks for negative index values (should also be all now).
* Make printing more inline with how the rest of the class works and make some
of the output more consistent.
* Also add the new unsigned types to PrintToStream() output.
* Fix printing of unknown types and invalid BMessages, it would always have
printed only the first entry respectively the same error.
* Added some clarifying comments.
* Cleanup.
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the new sematic of transfer_area so a message area is transfered into the right
teams' address space and it does not need to be cloned there anymore. Passing
by area is only used for messages bigger than a certain size (currently
hardcoded to 40KB) which should be somehow bound to the max port message size.
This makes passing large messages (i.e. > the port limit) possible, so for
example copy&paste of long text, image data, etc. should now work.
Got rid of the fClonedArea member as it is not necessary with the new design,
renamed shared_area to message_area in the private message_header, avoid
an unnecessary allocation of the header for the copy constructors, check
allocations in a few more places and some minor cleanup.
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with PostMessage() in case the message queue is full.
Some notes:
* for synchronous replies, we don't use this mechanism yet, but it could be
extended to do that as well.
* the code looks so complicated because we need a way to access the looper's
queue without locking it (to prevent deadlocks); like Dano's solution, I've
abused BTokenSpace to store a BDirectMessageTarget with a BHandler.
* we also need to decouple the lifetime of a looper's queue from its target,
as we cannot lock the looper, and therefore, can't guarantee it stays valid
as long as we're accessing it outside of BLooper.
* init_clipboard() now needs to be done after the global constructors have
been called - since sending messages now needs gDefaultTokens to be initialized.
Since this is done per image, it shouldn't cause any troubles, though.
* some minor cleanup, removed unused _msg_cache_cleanup_() and friends.
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This will allow to fix message related problems like drag and drop and scripting.
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message header into account. It worked before at some point as BLooper was
letting the looper handle messages to invalid targets - they are now just
dropped.
This fixes bug #93.
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task_looper() again.
* removed BMessenger::fPreferred - whenever you had to specify "usePreferred" separately,
you don't have to do that anymore - use B_PREFERRED_TOKEN instead.
* fixed BTokenSpace::GetToken() semantics: it will no longer touch the "object" argument
in case of failure.
* Introduced a BWindow::_DistributeMessage() that will be part of the event dispatcher
counterpart to the app_server (the other will be _DetermineTarget()).
* Made it easier to use Michael's Message4 implementation: just add the following line
to your UserBuildConfig:
AppendToConfigVar DEFINES : HAIKU_TOP src : USING_MESSAGE4 : global ;
* Introduced ServerWindow::HandlerMessenger() and FocusMessenger() - the first will
target the client handler, while the other will target the preferred handler of the
client looper (usually the view having focus).
* Fixed dano message unflattening in the Message4 code.
* Changed BMessage::PrintToStream() to no longer use macros in the Message4 implementation.
* I hope that's all - it's a huge change, but it's all connected.
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proper private static BMessage members and made them accessible through
BMessage::Private. Got rid of unused _reconstruct_message_().
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Nonetheless, here is new BMessenger-related goodness to smooth is all out.
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Added calls to _init_message_(), _delete_message_(), and
_msg_cache_cleanup() to InitTerminateLibBe.cpp
Finished first implementation of BMessage::SendReply(), BMessage::_send_(),
and BMessage::_send_message()
Add BMessage to app.src, removed BBlockCache from support.src.
New BMessage::Private class has functions for twiddling BMessage internals
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