{"id":404,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=404"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"bmessages-and-color-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=404","title":{"rendered":"BMessages and color operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because BeOS has a sophisticated messaging system behind the scenes, both developers and users can do some pretty cool tricks that just aren&#8217;t possible (or that are very difficult to do) on other operating systems. For example, take a look at Marco Nellisen&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xs4all.nl\/~marcone\/be.html\">ColorFontSelector<\/a>, which is capable of broadcasting messages to all kinds of applications (the color picker in some BeOS graphics apps can do this as well).<br \/>\nIf you drag a color out of the color picker palette and onto the Desktop, the Desktop changes to that color. If you drag a color onto <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bebits.com\/app\/76\">DeskCalc<\/a>, the calculator takes on that color. If you drag the color into your favorite text or HTML editor, the color&#8217;s hex value will be inserted into the editor. None of these applications were designed to work specifically with the color picker &#8212; the magic of BMessages makes it possible for any app to communicate with any other app easily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because BeOS has a sophisticated messaging system behind the scenes, both developers and users can do some pretty cool tricks that just aren&#8217;t possible (or that are very difficult to do) on other operating systems. For example, take a look at Marco Nellisen&#8217;s ColorFontSelector, which is capable of broadcasting messages to all kinds of applications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}