Just as Linux quickly established itself as the OS of choice for the independent UNIX developer community, the BeOS, available for both PowerPCs and Intel systems, provides exciting new features for independent multimedia developers. Be Developer's Guide is the official programmer's reference manual to this revolutionary new operating system. Much as Inside Macintosh galvanized the Mac developer community nearly fifteen years ago with its under-the-hood access to the new art of GUI programming, Be Developer's Guide provides developers with access to the internals of the first really new operating system in many years. Describing all the foundation kits in the operating system and how to use them, this book is necessary reading for anyone who wants to design runnable applications for the BeOS.