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6 * Niels Sascha Reedijk, niels.reedijk@gmail.com
11 \page app_intro Introduction to the Application Kit
13 The Application Kit should be your starting point if you want to write
14 native Haiku applications with a GUI. The application kit does
15 exactly as its name suggests; it is the basis for Haiku applications. You
16 should read through this document and the documents referenced here before
17 moving on to any other part of the API.
19 The Application Kit classes can be divided into two groups: the "messaging"
20 classes and the "system interaction" classes. The larger group contains
21 the messaging classes. Have a look at the \link app_messaging
22 Introduction to Messaging \endlink for more information.
23 The following classes are messaging classes:
33 The second group is the system interaction classes. These classes
34 provide hooks for your application to interact with the rest of the system.
35 The most important class is BApplication. This is a list of all the
36 system interaction classes: