Re: A Critique: Getting Started with GNUstep on Windows

2016-02-19 Thread Dan Hitt
On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Doc O'Leary <drole...@2015usenet1.subsume.com> wrote: > For your reference, records indicate that > Dan Hitt <dan.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> For developing software --- it was easy and pleasant >> to bang out applications using

Re: A Critique: Getting Started with GNUstep on Windows

2016-02-18 Thread Dan Hitt
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Doc O'Leary <drole...@2015usenet1.subsume.com> wrote: > For your reference, records indicate that > Dan Hitt <dan.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Absolutely --- an entire OS which you just install on some partition >> of a gpt disk &g

Re: IA: regular-gnustep.iso LiveCD (stable builds available)

2014-06-12 Thread Dan Hitt
Hi Mike, When i first saw your ua address i wondered where you were. I hope you are not physically in south eastern Ukraine! But if you are, i hope you can figure out what is the right path to follow. (And i certainly hope that Slavyansk does not become a Guernica.) dan On Thu, Jun 12, 2014

Re: IA: regular-gnustep.iso LiveCD (stable builds available)

2014-04-13 Thread Dan Hitt
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Michael Shigorin m...@osdn.org.ua wrote: . here are the images built on stable branch in addition to the ever-changing Sisyphus based ones: http://en.altlinux.org/Starterkits/gnustep Thanks Mike for preparing this. It installs very easily on my computer

Re: IA: regular-gnustep.iso LiveCD (stable builds available)

2014-04-13 Thread Dan Hitt
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 1:34 AM, Michael Shigorin m...@osdn.org.ua wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:32:21PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: ... Now . . . i need emacs in order to use any computer, but if i try apt-get install emacs (as root) i get: E: Couldn't find package emacs I presume

Re: IA: regular-gnustep.iso LiveCD

2014-03-06 Thread Dan Hitt
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Michael Shigorin m...@osdn.org.ua wrote: Hello, The images are available here (scheduled for weekly builds): http://nightly.altlinux.org/sisyphus/flavours/gnustep/ Here's the information on Regular Builds project: http://en.altlinux.org/Regular .

Re: elementary OS

2014-02-09 Thread Dan Hitt
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Riccardo Mottola r...@gnu.org wrote: ... I take that as a compliment. However, I feel this project as my home, why should I change? 1) I want to write in one of the languages I like most and in which I write I have written applications in the past 12 years

Re: this is a modern way to present a project

2014-02-06 Thread Dan Hitt
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf lars.sonchocky-helld...@hamburg.de wrote: I see this as an inspirational source for those who aim to redesign the web pages of GNUstep: http://elementaryos.org/ for those interested: this is GTK based (sadly not GNUstep)

Re: Etoile and PopplerKit

2014-01-01 Thread Dan Hitt
On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Patryk Laurent plaur...@me.com wrote: I was trying to build Etoile for the first time, but got several compilation errors on my Ubuntu system. Mostly I've been commenting out/patching the offending lines (When in doubt/Comment it out) and documenting the

Re: This thing we called GNUstep (Re: Kickstarter was not successful... but it did help things...)

2013-12-20 Thread Dan Hitt
On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Pirmin Braun p...@intars.de wrote: Am Fri, 20 Dec 2013 16:53:25 -0500 schrieb Gregory Casamento greg.casame...@gmail.com : What is more effective is to change GNUstep's look so that it appeals to a wider audience do we need another GUI? Since 30 years

Re: Comments on the website from people on twitter...

2013-08-09 Thread Dan Hitt
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Gregory Casamento greg.casame...@gmail.com wrote: ... The goals of GNUstep are quite clear. Our goal is to create an API which is a clone of the latest version of Cocoa and to provide the best development environment on as many operating systems as we

Re: GNUstep distro

2013-05-09 Thread Dan Hitt
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 May 2013 21:53, Dan Hitt dan.h...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: . Although i doubt i can give you any useful help whatsoever, if you do produce a Window Maker

Re: GNUstep distro

2013-05-08 Thread Dan Hitt
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: . Is there a current GNUstep-based distribution, at all? ... many interesting and valid points omitted The closest seems to be the Étoilé project, but to put it mildly, they really do not embrace the release early,

Re: adding a flag for the linker in a certain order

2012-09-30 Thread Dan Hitt
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Dan Hitt dan.h...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Fred Kiefer fredkie...@gmx.de wrote: But without knowing your specific problem it is hard to tell which one, probably ADDITIONAL_TOOL_LIBS. .. Maybe you could read the documentation

Re: adding a flag for the linker in a certain order

2012-09-28 Thread Dan Hitt
!! On 27.09.2012 22:30, Dan Hitt wrote: Just for reference here, some people on the gcc-help list gave me a work-around for this issue. The work around is to link in the whole archive, via: ADDITIONAL_LDFLAGS=-Wl,--whole-archive,/full/path/to/lib1.a,/full/path/to/lib2.a,...,--no-whole-archive

Re: adding a flag for the linker in a certain order

2012-09-27 Thread Dan Hitt
abbreviation for libraries which is probably more portable.) So thanks in advance for any clues on that front, or maybe a pointer to the docs (because maybe it's right there but i'm just looking over it??). dan On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Dan Hitt dan.h...@gmail.com wrote: I'm building

adding a flag for the linker in a certain order

2012-09-26 Thread Dan Hitt
I'm building a command line program (using tool.make) and i need to add a library. I understand from the internet that in order to add a flag for the linker i use ADDITIONAL_LDFLAGS=-lblahblahblah By using make messages=yes i can verify that indeed the extra library is getting added. But it

Re: api for programmatically getting a list of all windows

2012-09-18 Thread Dan Hitt
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Germán A. Arias ger...@xelalug.org wrote: El dom, 16-09-2012 a las 22:31 -0700, Dan Hitt escribió: I would like to programmatically get a list of all windows on my screen in a gnustep application. I suppose i could shell out and call xwininfo -tree -root

Re: api for programmatically getting a list of all windows

2012-09-18 Thread Dan Hitt
Thanks Riccardo, Germán, and Nikolaus. NSWindowList(*,*) and NSWindowCount() appear to refer to the windows of the application. I tested all this out with a little code NSArray* wins=[NSApp windows]; unsigned int count=[wins count]; int wc; NSCountWindows(wc); printf(window count is %d

Re: api for programmatically getting a list of all windows

2012-09-18 Thread Dan Hitt
Thanks Matt and Ivan for your suggestions, warnings, and ideas. Matt --- in answer to your question about xwininfo --- what i want to do is form a model of what is on screen. So skipping off-screen and unmapped windows is exactly right. The reason for not parsing xwininfo is i want to form this

Re: PlayingSound

2012-08-30 Thread Dan Hitt
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Stefan Bidi stefanb...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Steve Van Voorst svanvoo...@hughes.net wrote: 1) I'm new to GNUstep/Linux, coming from MacOS. 2) Current Operating System = Ubuntu 12.04 3) When I run the following code: ...

sound editor or viewer, or application for displaying graphs (probably in a scroll view)

2012-05-13 Thread Dan Hitt
Is there a GNUstep application which displays waveforms? These could be waveforms from sound files, or other sources. What about one that draws graphs (which is of course related, especially if it can handle sampled data with hundreds of thousands of samples, i suppose in some kind of scroll

Re: build of project center 0.6.0 conks out with undefined _fileTypes at line 96 of PCAddFilesPanel.m

2012-05-09 Thread Dan Hitt
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Riccardo Mottola riccardo.mott...@libero.it wrote: ... yes, the current release doesn't build with current gnustep core. It was fixed later. You might try a nightly tarball or svn head. ... [*] ftp://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/daily-snapshots/ Thanks Riccardo! So i

build of project center 0.6.0 conks out with undefined _fileTypes at line 96 of PCAddFilesPanel.m

2012-05-08 Thread Dan Hitt
Hi All, I'm trying to set up a gnustep system. I'm using a debian 6.0.4 system, with gcc 4.4.5. There are no debian/gnustep packages installed; instead (per Fred) i built my own: gnustep-startup-0.28.0 gworkspace-0.9.0 gorm-1.2.12 ProjectCenter-0.6.0 The first three of these built

Re: building gworkspace in a debian system where other components exist

2012-05-06 Thread Dan Hitt
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Fred Kiefer fredkie...@gmx.de wrote: .. It looks like GNUstep gui was linked against the already installed base version and not the new one. Perhaps you did not source GNUstep.sh from the new installation or the old directories are in your environment paths.

Re: building gworkspace in a debian system where other components exist

2012-05-06 Thread Dan Hitt
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 1:59 AM, Riccardo Mottola riccardo.mott...@libero.it wrote: ... Perhaps you need to source GNUstep.sh before starting windowmaker. If you start your session with a display manager like xdm, you might want to add it to .xinitrc for example. Before starting anything,

building gworkspace in a debian system where other components exist

2012-05-03 Thread Dan Hitt
I have a debian 6.0.4 (squeeze) system. I installed the gnustep packages---24 of them, according to dpkg --get-selections | grep -i gnustep | wc The Window Maker program on debian is version 0.92, but i was advised to run with 0.95.2. So i compiled it, and installed it to a path within my

Re: pure gnustep system

2012-04-24 Thread Dan Hitt
a window manager and file browser, i guess). Any clues on this (e.g., URLs, faqs, etc)? Thanks in advance for any further info, and we'll see how this goes. dan On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Dan Hitt dan.h...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Riccardo and Stefan for your comments (also Jamie and Ivan

Re: pure gnustep system

2012-04-11 Thread Dan Hitt
Thanks Riccardo and Stefan for your comments (also Jamie and Ivan). So i downloaded the iso Stefan recommended, and was pleasantly surprised that i could boot up my computer with it. In fact, i'm using it right now (with Chrome as a web browser to type this in). My biggest puzzle right now is