Release Notes: Deskbar

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# Deskbar

Declared in: be/be_apps/Deskbar/Deskbar.h

There's a new system for adding items to Deskbar's shelf. Instead of using "live" BView objects, you create an add-on that implements the Deskbar item-instantiation function, and then pass a pointer to the add-on to `BDeskbar::AddItem()`.

An advantage of the add-on system is that Deskbar items are now persistent across boots.

### instantiate_deskbar_item()

`BView *``instantiate_deskbar_item(void``) `

| In Beta 1, this function is called `instantiate_deskbar_addon()`. The name will be changed in the next Beta.

This is the deskbar-item instantiation function that you implement in an add-on. The function should return a BView object that knows how to describe itself in an archive. The add-on that contains this function doesn't have to live in a particular directory.

### AddItem()

`status_t` `AddItem(entry_ref *`addon, `int32` *id = `NULL``) `
`status_t` `AddItem(BView *`view, `int32` *id = `NULL``)` deprecated

`AddItem()` puts a new item on the Deskbar's shelf. To create the new item, Deskbar loads addon and calls the `instantiate_deskbar_item()` function that should be implemented therein. The id argument, if supplied, is set to the unique id number that Deskbar generates for the new item.

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