Adrian, --- Adrian Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Jun 22, 2005, at 1:58 AM, Gregory John Casamento wrote: > > > All, > > > > Please let me know if anyone has any thoughts about this. I would > > also like > > any feedback anyone has on any last minute features or bug fixes they > > feel > > should go into the app before the 1.0 release. > > > > Gorm has been very stable for the last few releases, so I'm > > considering that > > after the next stable release of core, that Gorm should follow this > > with a 1.0. > > > > Does anyone have any comments? > > I just duplicated a preferences panel I did in IB in Gorm. I was > eventually able to do everything I could in IB, and it worked well, but > still the experience left me with a short wishlist: > > - Undo. (Biggest win would be ability to undo accidental moves of the > wrong thing, like a group instead of a contained item.) Undo is somewhat difficult to implement for Gorm. I am looking into this. > - Ability to move items forward and backward in depth. Maybe not > absolutely necessary, but nice to have. Done. > Likewise, ability to group > items without creating a new widget like a box or a scrollview, but > just to be able to move them around as a unit. This second part is a little harder. > - A set of "align" commands for lining up multiple items. Done. :) > - Add the horizontal and vertical divider bars to a palette somewhere. > I see these on other gorms, but I haven't found how to make one myself. These lines are just NSBox where the title is removed and the height or width has been reduced to 1 or 2 pixels. > - Ability to delete items by hitting backspace or delete on the > keyboard. For me, neither 'backspace' nor 'delete' does this. Looking into this. :) > - Ability to set up radio buttons. There are radio buttons displayed > in the palette, but in IB when you drag you get a set of two or more > bound together in an NSMatrix, which allows you to access the selection > state in code. In Gorm, dragging gives just a single radio button and > no matrix. I was able to copy a matrix from another .gorm file, but I > could not figure out how to create one myself. Also, once I got the > matrix, I could not change its layout. You need to use Right-Alt, or Shift-Right-Alt on some keyboards, to make this work. > - Ability to set up slider tick marks. (Actually I'm not sure whether > this functionality is working or not in the NSSlider class.) Once the slider supports this, the Gorm inspector will be updated to allow it. > - Extra spacing in all of Gorm's own .gorms so that text isn't cut off. > See screenshots, using back-art/Vera Sans on linux. I'm working on this. > Doubtless some of these reflect more my better familiarity with IB than > shortcomings in Gorm. Also, despite these items, let me hasten to > mention that Gorm has seemed very solid and robust as long as I've > known it, more than deserving of a 1.0 version number. Thanks, GJC Gregory John Casamento -- CEO/President Open Logic Corp. (A MD Corp.) ## Maintainer of Gorm (IB Equiv.) for GNUstep. _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
