That's good to hear! I am a retired IT dev, and spent most of my
career using c/c++/c#. I've been looking forward to learning objc, as we
never had that where I worked.
I'll just be patient.

bruce

On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 2:23 PM Gregory Casamento <greg.casame...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> We are most certainly still active.   The website was shifted over because
> we lost our hosting since the person who maintained it passed away, so we
> are in a bit of a transition.   Once the website is back on it's feet,
> those tutorials should be updated.
>
> GC
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 1:19 PM bruce <darkoverlordofd...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I’m trying to find some help with GNUstep. I’ve reached out on reddit
>> (r/gnustep), and received no response, so I’ll try email.
>>
>> I’m using FreeBSD, which has pre-built GNUstep packages, and they seem to
>> work well, but the problem I run into is finding documentation for the
>> current version. For example, Gorm. I’ve found this tutorial (
>> https://gnustep.github.io/experience/PierresDevTutorial/index.html#) but
>> it doesn’t match the current version of Gorm. The fields available on my
>> screen don’t match the screens in the tutorial. I try to wing it, but no
>> matter what I select, the menu items for subsequent steps are grayed out.
>> So the section titled Adding outlets & actions is not usable Are there any
>> more recent instructions that match the current version?
>>
>> To be honest, I don’t like gui designers that much, and would prefer just
>> to write it all from source. To that end, I’ve been using
>> https://github.com/gammasoft71/Examples_Cocoa as a starting point. These
>> all work on a Mac I borrowed, but I have some issues getting them to work
>> on GNUstep. In one case - the ComboBox example, the screen reacts to the
>> controls so slowly that it’s not really usable. Again, the documentation I
>> can find is not very helpful. Mostly it seems the documentation is for
>> older versions of the API. Is there any current documentation for the
>> GNUstep Cocoa API?
>>
>> I’m starting to wonder if the project is still alive. I see the main web
>> page has been republished - github.gnustep.io - but most of the links I
>> click on in it are dead. Help!
>>
>> --
>>
>> Bruce Davidson
>>
>>
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