Re: to make newbie more comfortable and easier to glance: suggestion on change frontpage of gap

2009-05-10 Thread hns
On 10 Mai, 01:46, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf lars.sonchocky- helld...@hamburg.de wrote: Hi Riccardo, I second Zhang's view. A short description would give visitors - who   aren't gnustep old stagers - an idea what GAP and all the other   stuff on that page is about. Even if the frontpage is

Re: image browser application

2009-05-08 Thread hns
On 5 Mai, 09:48, Zhang Weiwu zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: Do you think it is needed to have image browser application? Like gthum in gtk/gnome, mapivi in tk etc. For doing slideshow or reading manga or selecting photos etc. I didn't find one in existing applications. There are software that

Re: Fwd: FYI: CoreData lite

2009-05-05 Thread hns
On 5 Mai, 02:00, Yen-Ju Chen yjch...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Dirk Theisen d.thei...@objectpark.org Date: Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:06 AM Subject: FYI: CoreData lite To: cocotron-...@googlegroups.com From:    Ken Case k...@omnigroup.com Subject:        

Re: XML-style plists with the [NSDictionary writeToFile:]

2009-04-28 Thread hns
]; -- hns ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep

Re: XCB (Was Re: Window managers ( was Re: newbie question ))

2009-04-24 Thread hns
On 23 Apr., 21:32, David Chisnall thera...@sucs.org wrote: On 23 Apr 2009, at 19:32, hns wrote: Cairo uses Xrender, so should be very fast over a network. I theory, at least.  I am not convinced GNUstep's use of Cairo is   particularly efficient in this respect.  One thing I've suggested

Re: Window managers ( was Re: newbie question )

2009-04-24 Thread hns
): Foundation.so 3,7 MB AppKit.so 5,6 MB Simple WebKit.so 1,3 MB -- hns ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep

Re: XCB (Was Re: Window managers ( was Re: newbie question ))

2009-04-23 Thread hns
On 23 Apr., 17:18, David Chisnall thera...@sucs.org wrote: Hi Fred, On 23 Apr 2009, at 16:12, Fred Kiefer wrote: could you please detail a bit on the benefits of an XCB backend   compared to an Xlib one? As you already pointed out newer versions of Xlib are internally   able to use

Re: XCB (Was Re: Window managers ( was Re: newbie question ))

2009-04-23 Thread hns
I should have mentioned that the main speed limit is doing alpha- blending on client side (Xrender does it where it belongs to: in the X server). This means grabbing some portion from the screen buffer on the server, sending over network, doing alpha blending, and sending back. So each pixel is

Re: Bug on Software Index

2009-04-19 Thread hns
On 8 Apr., 09:08, hns h...@computer.org wrote: On 7 Apr., 00:33, Germán Arias ger...@xelalug.org wrote: Hi, I want change the description of Físicalab, from FísicaLab to FisicaLab because, as you can see, Software Index don't display accents. But, when I submit a change, Software Index

Re: SVG support

2009-04-17 Thread hns
://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/objective-gtk/http://grafer.googlecode.com/http://opengrafik.googlecode.com/ Do you think in terms of a) a separate SVG application? b) an SVG based backend? c) a separate Franework? d) integration into SimpleWebKit? -- hns ___ Discuss

Re: NSToolbar and NSDrawer

2009-04-16 Thread hns
/Classes/NSToolbar_Class/Reference/Reference.html http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Cocoa/Conceptual/Toolbars/Toolbars.html GNUstep should work quite compatible. -- hns ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org

Re: Bug on Software Index

2009-04-08 Thread hns
On 7 Apr., 00:33, Germán Arias ger...@xelalug.org wrote: Hi, I want change the description of Físicalab, from FísicaLab to FisicaLab because, as you can see, Software Index don't display accents. But, when I submit a change, Software Index don't save this. If I see on Pending there isn't any

Re: What platforms are people using GNUstep on?

2009-04-03 Thread hns
On 2 Apr., 22:24, David Chisnall thera...@sucs.org wrote: I think, for a variety of reasons, it would be helpful to get some   overview of what platforms people have actually built and tested   recent versions of GNUstep on.  The ones I've heard about over he last   year are (in no particular

Re: XML parser

2009-04-01 Thread hns
On 1 Apr., 15:47, Sebastian Reitenbach sebas...@l00-bugdead-prods.de wrote: Hi, for my next part I need to parse XML documents, I searched a bit around and in a forum I found this statement: If you're requiring 10.4 or greater, use NSXML and associated classes (NSXMLDocument, NSXMLNode,

Re: strange crasher that puzzles me

2009-03-31 Thread hns
Are there any easy rules of thumb to follow, any good documentation about memory-management in objective-c for the beginner like me? Yes: 1. only +alloc, +copy, +mutableCopy, +new return objects that you must release/autorelease explicitly (unless you want to keep it until application exit,

Re: NSZoneMallocAtomic disappeared from NSZone.h in -trunk

2009-03-24 Thread hns
it was removed intentionally or accidently. cheers Sebastian Cocoa defines NSZoneMalloc() but no NSZoneMallocAtomic(). So it appears to be an extension of GNUstep on which SOPE relies. -- hns ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http

Re: GNUStep and Cocoa Distributed Objects compatibility

2009-03-23 Thread hns
On 22 Mrz., 20:59, Piotr Isajew p...@ex.com.pl wrote: hns pisze: On 22 Mrz., 19:49, Richard Frith-Macdonald rich...@tiptree.demon.co.uk wrote: On 22 Mar 2009, at 17:31, hns wrote: On 22 Mrz., 12:12, Richard Frith-Macdonald rich...@tiptree.demon.co.uk wrote: On 22 Mar 2009, at 10

Re: GNUStep and Cocoa Distributed Objects compatibility

2009-03-23 Thread hns
Well, tcpdump is not sufficient since on that level you will only see the full NSPortMessages but the important thing is the payload. That may be a little too pessimistic. It should be possible to decide if keyed archiving is used or binary. You will see the payload within the NSPortMessages

Re: GNUStep and Cocoa Distributed Objects compatibility

2009-03-22 Thread hns
On 22 Mrz., 12:12, Richard Frith-Macdonald rich...@tiptree.demon.co.uk wrote: On 22 Mar 2009, at 10:23, Piotr Isajew wrote: Hello I would like to use Distributed Objects to communicate through the   network between Objective C GNU Step application (let's say running   on Linux) and it's

Re: GNUStep and Cocoa Distributed Objects compatibility

2009-03-22 Thread hns
On 22 Mrz., 19:49, Richard Frith-Macdonald rich...@tiptree.demon.co.uk wrote: On 22 Mar 2009, at 17:31, hns wrote: On 22 Mrz., 12:12, Richard Frith-Macdonald rich...@tiptree.demon.co.uk wrote: On 22 Mar 2009, at 10:23, Piotr Isajew wrote: Hello I would like to use Distributed

Re: some general questions regarding gnustep-gui programming

2009-03-07 Thread hns
Also in SimpleAgenda, the Preferences controllers window is just only a NSPanel, whereas I use a NSWindow. Both work fine, I see no obvious differences, so here is a second question, what are reasons to choose NSWindow, or  NSPanel to implement any window besides the main app window? What do

Re: MVC

2009-03-02 Thread hns
/toolkit* for Objective-C.You can choose any design pattern that you like. -- hns ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep

Re: GNUstepAutoInstall.sh

2009-02-28 Thread hns
On 28 Feb., 19:56, gero...@bluewin.ch gero...@bluewin.ch wrote: Hi Lars, I got inspired by your email, and thought it might be easily reworked into a nice bash script... Can you give it a try? I put you in as the author... Adapt the $DEV_HOME to suit your needs. The sed stream editor

Re: gnustep software index

2009-02-21 Thread hns
On 21 Feb., 09:44, Sebastian Reitenbach sebas...@l00-bugdead- prods.de wrote: Hello everybody, I just submitted my first app there, and I have some comments: Great!  * most of the names of input fields are intuitive and say enough, but I was wondering, what the supposed difference is

Re: Need help understanding subclassing issue

2009-02-19 Thread hns
* redesign your is a dictionary class relation to a has a dictionary. i.e. subclass OGBanner from NSObject and provide an NSDictionary instance variable -- hns ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: ObjC on non-Apple platforms?

2008-06-13 Thread hns
I do not feel that any time spend on it will be worth a dime. I posted diverse bug reports but nothing has happend in ages. The bug list of GNUstep dates back to: 2003 and some of the bug reports not even have been acknowledged. So why should anyone be willing to spend considerabl time on

Re: function pointer

2006-07-31 Thread hns
:(TYPE *) potential i.e. try typedef double (*FPTR)(double r, void * par); - (int) setPotential:(FPTR) potential; -- hns ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep

Re: Cross-compiling distributing Tools

2006-06-26 Thread hns
in properly using one of these libraries. -- hns ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep

Re: Cross-compiling distributing Tools

2006-06-17 Thread hns
Though we develop on Mac OS X (due to the lovely Xcode), the native target for running code distribution builds is GNU/Linux amd64. Our other two targets are GNU/Linux i386 (i.e. 32 bit) and Win32 via mingw32. Did you look how we did the same for mySTEP (a clone of GNUstep) to develop on

Re: GNUstep in DarwinPorts

2006-05-03 Thread hns
with DarwinPorts): 1) download and install DarwinPorts from http://www.darwinports.org/downloads/DarwinPorts-1.2.1-10.4.dmg 2) open a Terminal 3) type /opt/local/bin/port search GNUstep Result should look like: hns$ /opt/local/bin/port search GNUstep gnustep-makedevel/gnustep-make 1.11.0

Re: Merch/Propaganda

2006-05-03 Thread hns
Hm. Three different offers in the same system - and nobody knows either. Which is the official one? Just some thoughts... -- hns ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep

Re: Project GNUstep in a Nutshell ready for FOSDEM 2007

2006-03-14 Thread hns
Stefan Urbanek schrieb: I can write StepTalk scripting chapter. What should be the range? Also I can draw (prettify) all necessary diagrams using OmniGraffle if I will be provided by sketches. Stefan, many thanks. I have added you to the list of the authors. Details will follow. Nikolaus

Re: Project GNUstep in a Nutshell ready for FOSDEM 2007

2006-03-14 Thread hns
together without making everybody unhappy. The time plan is to have a complete list of committed authors by end of April and final manuscripts by end of July. Depending on the publisher we find, there will be guidelines about file formats, writing style etc. -- hns

Re: Project GNUstep in a Nutshell ready for FOSDEM 2007

2006-03-14 Thread hns
Sašo Kiselkov schrieb: How about we do some translations as well? I'd happily do the Slovak translation. Of course, the print-out will be in English only, but we could make translations available via web download. Saso, good point. But it depends a little on how we want to publish. There

Re: FOSDEM 2006

2006-03-07 Thread hns
suggested to me to write one and I have started to create a concept so that we have by next FOSDEM some GNUstep in a nutshell. I would volunteer as the editior and we need some authors. Some chapters can be easily based on the slides presented during FOSDEM 06. Ideas and volunteers welcome! -- hns

Re: NSStream update

2006-03-02 Thread hns
Derek Zhou schrieb: - (void) addEvent: (void*)data type: (RunLoopEventType)type watcher: (idRunLoopEvents)watcher forMode: (NSString*)mode; Where data is the file descriptor (int) in Unix. So how does that work? That can't work properly on a 64 bit machine...

Re: NSStream and friends + NSPredicate, NSExpression and others

2006-02-14 Thread hns
supporting classes added to MacOS-X more recently when they rewrote the http/url code? All the newer ones. Headers are IMHO complete and the simple classes. -- hns ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman

Re: NSStream and friends + NSPredicate, NSExpression and others

2006-02-09 Thread hns
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I am currently also working on that in my efforts to make mySTEP more compatible to the 10.4 documentation of Foundation.framework. I hope that I have this (together with the recently mentioned NSPredicate/NSExpression code) ready for publication within 4 weeks,

Re: NSPredicate and related classes ?

2006-01-11 Thread hns
they are directly supported by the API (NSPersistentStoreCoordinator: NSSQLiteStoreType, NSXMLStoreType). -- hns ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep

Re: NSPredicate and related classes ?

2006-01-09 Thread hns
Yen-Ju Chen schrieb: Hi, I just wonder whether anyone works on NSPredicate and related classes from Apple's Foundation ? Thanx. Yen-Ju Yes, I am currently working to add this to mySTEP. When it works, it needs to be integrated back into the GNUstep mainstream. -- hns

Re: FOSDEM 2006

2005-11-20 Thread hns
Nicolas, please add me to the FOSDEM 2006 wiki page. Nikolaus ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep

Re: FOSDEM 2006 - Saturday dinner

2005-11-18 Thread hns
Here is the Wiki link. I think it is sufficient to start a new page - or copy the one from 2005. But I have no idea how this works with MediaWiki. -- hns ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: FOSDEM 2006

2005-11-16 Thread hns
questions that should be answered by such a presentation? Nikolaus (hns) ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep

Re: FOSDEM 2006

2005-11-16 Thread hns
Helge Hess schrieb: On 16. Nov 2005, at 09:42 Uhr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me find out firstly, if I can really attend End of February (I don't want to promise something I can't finally hold). I will contact you through private mail on details. I suppose it wasn't clear enough in

Re: FOSDEM 2006

2005-11-16 Thread hns
That would be great! Although there are VGA cards for PDAs, I don't have one... ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep

Re: FOSDEM 2006

2005-11-15 Thread hns
The Nokia has no keyboard, so operation must be based on Touchpad-only operation, Handwriting and virtual Keyboard which is not aligned with the behaviour of many NSViews... Why on the Nokia and not show it on a better suited platform like the Sharp Zaurus? -- hns Helge Hess schrieb: - GNUstep

Re: attracting software developers

2005-11-07 Thread hns
Paraplegic Racehorse schrieb: The abandonment of old, great software products after Apple allowed the API to languish for, what, five years? can have done nothing good for Why do you think so? Look at http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/cocoa-dev and see how active it is. GNUstep. How

Cocoa based Basic Interpreter/Compiler made open source (GPL)

2005-11-06 Thread hns
Dear GNUstep developers, I have decided to make the CocoaBasic project, which is a compiler for an OO BASIC dialect similar to REALbasic, open source and publish it under the GPL. What I hope by this posting is that someone takes care of the project and adapts it to the benefit of the

Re: SerialPort NSFileHandle baudRate

2005-10-06 Thread hns
system(stty 9600 /dev/xxx); - except for Windows If you want to do it in GNUstep/Cocoa: you can use NSTask. -- hns ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep

Re: SerialPort NSFileHandle baudRate

2005-10-06 Thread hns
think about adding it to GNUstep - then it would become the standard way. -- hns ___ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep