Dear all,
I'm pleased to announce CocoaGap: a native Macintosh OS X GUI for
GAP. Version 0.1 is available for download now from SourceForge at
http://cocoagap.sourceforge.net/
Currently, CocoaGap is an almost feature-complete replacement for
xgap. It allows interaction with the GAP command line, display of
subgroup lattices, inspection of subgroups, and most other features
supported by xgap. It is probably lacking a few features: command-
line completions is one that I am aware of.
It also has some improvements over running xgap under Apple's X11
environment. At this time, these are mostly by-products of being a
native program -- Cut/Copy/Paste work as one would expect, the save
dialogs are native (with access to favorites, etc). There is also
the beginnings of a preferences dialog, and a progress bar while
loading the GAP library on startup.
I hope to make further improvements to CocoaGap as time goes on. The
Cocoa libraries are quite a bit richer than the X11/Athena libraries,
which should make it easy to add such things as an in-program html
help browser, an application bundle for the entire GAP system, etc.
However, it's likely to be a while before I have time to add such
features, and what exists now works well enough to be helpful. I
have been using it as my main GAP environment for the last couple of
months, and found it to generally work well.
I would appreciate any comments or suggestions.
CocoaGap is licensed under the GPL.
Sincerely,
--Russ
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