Re: Please test new NSLock implementation!

2009-09-02 Thread Fred Kiefer
This is not really a bug, but the new lock code exposes the use of pthread.h in the header file NSLock.h. I would prefer to see this reverted back, like the old code did it, using macros in the .m file to convert the mutex and condition to the correct type. It looks like you changed this on

Re: Working on menu

2009-08-21 Thread Fred Kiefer
Germán Arias schrieb: Hi, I would like have menus like this (see attached image). If you are agree, I can work on this. Even add background images to menus (I see this more complex, but I think that would be nice). What do you think about this? Regards. I am not sure I understand, where you

Re: How to add support for my language?

2009-07-14 Thread Fred Kiefer
Csanyi Pal schrieb: Fred Kiefer fredkie...@gmx.de writes: Csanyi Pal wrote: It's free to edit data.classes files? I don't think so. And you? No, better don't touch these files. What should be translated is the text in the objects.gorm files, but as these are binary files don't change them

Re: How to add support for my language?

2009-07-10 Thread Fred Kiefer
Csanyi Pal wrote: * TODO gnustep-gui-ver.si.on/Panels $ cd gnustep-gui-ver.si.on/Panels $ cp English.lproj Hungarian.lproj ** DONE Panels/GNUmakefile To translate: Panels/GNUmakefile -* LANGUAGES = English Hungarian -* ** TODO

Re: NSView drawing in tool

2009-06-25 Thread Fred Kiefer
David Chisnall wrote: As I said in my other email, this is not the correct question. Tools are able to interact with the GUI. There is nothing stopping a tool creating an NSApplication instance, NSWindows, and so on. The problem you are facing is using gui functionality without a GUI

Re: NSView drawing in tool

2009-06-24 Thread Fred Kiefer
Andreas Höschler wrote: Hi all, I just realized that the tool works as expected on GNUstep when being logged in on the console of the machine supposed to run the service. However, in production this service is supposed to be started by cron with noone being logged in!? Any idea how to get

Re: NSView drawing in tool

2009-06-23 Thread Fred Kiefer
Andreas Höschler wrote: Hi all, I have a tool (service) that is supposed to generate PNG images using NSView drawRect and NSBitmapImageRep *rep = [[NSBitmapImageRep alloc] initWithFocusedViewRect:[mapView bounds]]; When running this tool and calling the above method (NSView,

Re: Installing GNUstep-base on OS X 10.3.9

2009-06-21 Thread Fred Kiefer
bdpier...@bdpierce.com wrote: Hello everyone!! I've been working for 2 months trying to get GNUstep installed on an Indigo iBook running OS X 10.3.9 I have gcc 3.3.5 installed, gnustep-make, gnustep-base, and a good majority of the dependencies either from source or fink. By now it

Re: Segfault in SystemPreferences

2009-06-12 Thread Fred Kiefer
Andreas Schik wrote: Fred Kiefer schrieb: [snip] I still have a problem with SystemPreferences, though. The colours panel does not work. Clicking 'Show All' in this panel yields the following: 2009-06-08 16:01:23.133 SystemPreferences[12103] File NSString.m: 1237. In -[NSString

Re: Segfault in SystemPreferences

2009-06-08 Thread Fred Kiefer
Andreas Schik wrote: Fred Kiefer schrieb: Andreas Schik wrote: Hi all, last week (May, 27th) I upgraded my GNUstep installation from SVN and encountered problems with SystemPreferences and GWorkspace. Both simply segfault during startup. Additionally, GWorkspace tells me that is cannot load

Re: Segfault in SystemPreferences

2009-06-05 Thread Fred Kiefer
Andreas Schik wrote: Hi all, last week (May, 27th) I upgraded my GNUstep installation from SVN and encountered problems with SystemPreferences and GWorkspace. Both simply segfault during startup. Additionally, GWorkspace tells me that is cannot load English.lproj/PrefWindow.gorm. In both

Re: purefoundation is yafi (yet another Foundation implementation)

2009-06-04 Thread Fred Kiefer
Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote: There seems to be another Foundation implementation around the corner (o.k. not quite yet): http://www.puredarwin.org/news/purefoundation http://www.hereapi.com/pf/ from their web page: PureFoundation is an attempt to create an open-source, binary

Re: Drawing strings on a line

2009-06-03 Thread Fred Kiefer
Andreas Höschler wrote: Hello all, I am developing a mapping application where I need to draw labels in a view. Currently I am using (as a first approach) [_name drawAtPoint:labelPoint withAttributes:nil]; This works: However, it does not exactly has the desired effect, since the

Re: How to compile backend xlib based on debian lenny's gnustep-gui

2009-06-01 Thread Fred Kiefer
Zhang Weiwu wrote: Fred Kiefer wrote: There is a second call to XShmQueryVersion in context.c, but this is protected by #ifdef XSHM If this fails for you, then your system is in a state where configure detects XSHM, but it isn't usable. If this package search command output is of help

Re: are there people actually using GNUMail?

2009-06-01 Thread Fred Kiefer
Zhang Weiwu wrote: It sometimes have wired behavior, e.g. typing 'i' after 'f' causes both letter erasered. This could be a problem of your font. If the font claims to have a fi ligature, but doesn't display anything for that, the described behaviour could be shown. Which font you are using?

Re: How to compile backend xlib based on debian lenny's gnustep-gui

2009-05-31 Thread Fred Kiefer
Zhang Weiwu wrote: Fred Kiefer wrote: What you are missing is the shared memory extension for your X server. What is strange is that we try to detect this during the configure phase. Perhaps we aren't checking that configure flag in all places the need to do so. The one I could find where

Re: How to compile backend xlib based on debian lenny's gnustep-gui

2009-05-30 Thread Fred Kiefer
What you are missing is the shared memory extension for your X server. What is strange is that we try to detect this during the configure phase. Perhaps we aren't checking that configure flag in all places the need to do so. The one I could find where this isn't done was

Re: drawing to NSImage off display

2009-05-09 Thread Fred Kiefer
Hi Scott, when you are saying that it worked before, at what time was that? A few days ago, weeks, months? As far as I know, drawing in a separate thread should have produced an error up until two months ago. Is your code working when executed in the main thread? If not we should try to get

Re: Problem with GNUstep and Objective-C++

2009-05-05 Thread Fred Kiefer
Mike Simmons wrote: When evaluated, CC turns out to be g++, but the same make failure occurs if I force make to use gcc. I'm running Suse SLES 10, and the g++ compiler version is 4.1.2, if that makes any difference. Any other suggestions? I know it's probably something simple, but the

Re: bugs in Terminal.app

2009-05-05 Thread Fred Kiefer
Riccardo Mottola wrote: * man page not readable (see attached screenshot where I put xterm as comparison) I just tried and I can use man just fine here, no funny characters. I have never seen your problem, sorry. Perhaps it is a font issue? Which terminal font are you using?

Re: is the bad performance because of backend and how could I change backend?

2009-05-02 Thread Fred Kiefer
The problem with the xlib backend you are experiencing is most likely due to it being of a different version than the gui library you installed from the Debian repository. According to your mail the xlib backend is version 0.16, which version are the other two backends you have installed? The

Re: NEWS: eggPlant application by TestPlant, LLC ported to Linux using GNUstep...

2009-04-25 Thread Fred Kiefer
Wow, I looked at there web site and the software is really impressive. I am surprised that you can do the same using GNUstep :-) Perhaps we could even use that software to do the graphical testing for the gui functionality we are currently lacking? Fred Gregory John Casamento wrote: All,

Re: compile problem: undefined symbol: XShmQueryVersion

2009-04-24 Thread Fred Kiefer
The most likely reason you get this problem is that you still have he partly compiled newer GNUstep system lying around and there are some incompatabilities to the software you loaded from the Debian repository. It is a bit hard to tell from here what you did, so I have to guess. The new

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

2009-04-23 Thread Fred Kiefer
Hi David, 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 XCB, so what can we gain by using it directly? Fred Original-Nachricht Datum: Thu, 23 Apr 2009

Re: Image conversion

2009-04-20 Thread Fred Kiefer
Not sure whether this helps you, but the cairo backend of GNUstep has build in support for PDF output for quite some time now. As you are using very old GNUstep releases, it might not be in your version.(Did you actually switch from art to cairo already?) But if you want to do bug image

Re: Fwd: Messaging across threads using NSThread

2009-04-09 Thread Fred Kiefer
for the permissions (uses the default security). Does anyone know what configuration is required to allow this to work under Windows? Thanks so much for any assistance. Sam On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Nicolas Roard nicolas.ro...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Fred

Re: Messaging across threads using NSThread

2009-04-06 Thread Fred Kiefer
Nicolas Roard wrote: On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Riccardo Mottola mul...@ngi.it wrote: Hello, in FTP (available in GAP, http://gap.nongnu.org) I do inter-thread messaging with the precise goal to have threads perform operations on the main thread GUI operations. I set up DO between the

Re: GSWImageButton and a updated example for GSWeb

2009-04-05 Thread Fred Kiefer
David Ayers wrote: What would people think if we extract the internal image handling of NSBitmapImageRep+image-type into GNUstep specific classes/functions in base-additions to make it available for both -gui and -gsweb? Doesn't sound like a great idea to me. This would introduce dependencies

Re: Question about cacheDisplayInRect:toBitmapImageRep:

2009-04-05 Thread Fred Kiefer
oren wrote: Hi, I doubt the implementation of our cacheDisplayInRect:toBitmapImageRep: but i don't have 10.4 to test. It seems our implementation use [GSCurrentContext() GSReadRect: rect]; to copy the existing data into the provided bitmap argument but shouldn't it invoke -display* over that

Re: NSOpenGLView : Calling openGLContext causes exception

2009-04-03 Thread Fred Kiefer
This really is horrible code, that cannot be commited in its current form. I am willing to support this feature, but you or somebody else will have to clean up the code first. You surely wouldn't like the whole rest of GNUstep being written that way :-) Passing a pointer through an X property is

Re: Improve MyGL a bit

2009-03-31 Thread Fred Kiefer
oren wrote: Hi, Here is a patch for cleaning up MyGL in http://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/tests/examples/trunk/gui/MyGL Thanks! Could somebody with a bit more OpenGL knowledge point out whether this is an improvement or not? To my untrained eyes this looks just like a code rearrangement, but it

Re: NSTextfield

2009-03-24 Thread Fred Kiefer
ici...@mail.cg.tuwien.ac.at wrote: I have a question: is NSCell's setSendsActionOnEndEditing currently broken in svn trunk? It doesn't work for me, but I am sure it worked some time ago. I have a subclass of NSWindoController which implements the windowDidLoad method, and in there I send

Re: Audio

2009-03-24 Thread Fred Kiefer
Matthew Weinstein wrote: I'm in the process of refactoring quicktime parts of my qualitative analysis software so I can port the latest version to gnustep. I'm wondering what the best audio framework or class is out there for gnustep. I'm considering Etoile's mediakit, but I'm afraid that

Re: [Urgent] GNUstep at Google Summer of Code'2009

2009-03-11 Thread Fred Kiefer
Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: On Wednesday 11 March 2009 19:51:54 Adam Fedor wrote: On Mar 11, 2009, at 12:46 PM, Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: I'm logged into the wiki, but the page is still locked, therefore I add this here, and maybe someone else could add it to the wiki page: You need to

Re: [Urgent] GNUstep at Google Summer of Code'2009

2009-03-11 Thread Fred Kiefer
Xavier Glattard wrote: Adam Fedor a écrit : On Mar 10, 2009, at 7:25 AM, Xavier Glattard wrote: I don't know what are the requirements for mentors, but I would be glad to help and take care of one small project :) A big factor in how many students google gives us is the number of students

Re: [Urgent] GNUstep at Google Summer of Code'2009

2009-03-10 Thread Fred Kiefer
Adam Fedor wrote: On Mar 8, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Quentin Mathé wrote: Also who is going to be in charge of the joint application? Someone from GNUstep? That sounds likely since it's the umbrella project for the application. I applied for GNUstep last year, so I could do that. Thank you Adam!

Re: [Etoile-discuss] GSoC 2009

2009-02-25 Thread Fred Kiefer
David, shouldn't we again head for a shared application for Etoile and GNUstep? It didn't work that well last year, but surely better than two seperate applications. Fred David Chisnall wrote: It's almost time for the Google Summer of Code mentoring organisation application phase. This

Re: Parallel Compilation with gnustep-make

2009-02-23 Thread Fred Kiefer
Nicola Pero wrote: I turned on parallel compilation support on by default in trunk. :-) So, using gnustep-make from trunk, all you need to do to build a project using parallel building is: make -j 2 Try it out. On new machines (multi-processor, or multi-core, or both) it is much

Re: no text shown in menus and windows

2009-02-17 Thread Fred Kiefer
Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: Hi, I just installed gnustep-startup-0.22.0 on opensuse 11.0, i386, further I installed Gorm, Renaissance and GDL2 from svn. When I startup Gorm or DBModeler, then in the menus and windows there is no text shown. Everything seems to work fine, but I have to

Re: easiest way to start messing with gnustep again?

2009-02-14 Thread Fred Kiefer
dan wrote: I would like to mess around with gnustep again. When i did it before (several years ago) there were daemons to start, lots of stuff to build, and so on, but it looks like now all i need is a debian system i just have to run apt-get to build everything? (This from looking at

Re: an error from the expression: CLS_ISCLASS((Class)receiver) File: sendmsg.c Line 321

2009-02-13 Thread Fred Kiefer
Original-Nachricht Datum: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:53:46 + Von: Richard Frith-Macdonald rich...@tiptree.demon.co.uk An: David Chisnall csda...@swansea.ac.uk CC: David T. Shen stp...@live.com, Discuss-gnustep Discuss Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org Betreff: Re: an error from the

Re: an error from the expression: CLS_ISCLASS((Class)receiver) File: sendmsg.c Line 321

2009-02-12 Thread Fred Kiefer
I don't understand this error message either. But you already should get some warnings during compilation. sharedApplicatiion is clearly misspelled and you should get this told by the compiler. Best you fix you compiler warnings and then report back with a bit more information. Fred David T.

Re: no log output to console on Windows?

2009-02-08 Thread Fred Kiefer
jra wrote: I'm working with GNUstep on Windows XP (I used the latest Windows installer). I put together a little app and its working ok. I put in some NSLogs and did not see any output in the console. I then put in printfs, and then fprintfs, and still nothing. What is the trick? How do I

Re: Transparent menus and applications

2009-02-08 Thread Fred Kiefer
Robson Cardoso dos Santos wrote: Hello, I'm having problems with the GNUstep applications after installing xcompmgr. All of them are transparent when xcompmgr is running. What settings are you using for xcompmgr? I just started up xcompmgr with out any special settings and things looked normal

Re: Impelmenting NSWindows95InterfaceStyle

2009-01-22 Thread Fred Kiefer
I just added some very experimental code that allows you to experiment with in window menus. I followed the idea of Nikolaus to set the menu via [NSWindow setMenu:] this allows you to test different approaches to this new concept without bothering with the low level details. The current

Re: OpenGL sample code on Linux

2009-01-19 Thread Fred Kiefer
Thomas Gamper wrote: I think the NSOpenGLContext/XGGLContext breakage is my fault. I'll look into it. Sure, have a look, but after your patch things worked fine for me. Most likely it really is the visual that we are selecting wrongly. Fred ___

Re: Impelmenting NSWindows95InterfaceStyle

2009-01-19 Thread Fred Kiefer
Matt Rice wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Pete French p...@twisted.org.uk wrote: I don't use mswindows very much, but it does not appear to be the sort of behavior you would expect from a windows application. I would expect use of NSWindows95InterfaceStyle to produce a menu in each

Re: OpenGL sample code on Linux

2009-01-19 Thread Fred Kiefer
I hacked bestContext() in back/Source/x11/context.c to return False and with that both examples work again. This looks like the problem has to do with the visual, drawable or depth selection. On my machine glXChooseFBConfig() finds 18 usable configurations, but the code sticks to the first one.

Re: OpenGL sample code on Linux

2009-01-19 Thread Fred Kiefer
: for (i=numvis-1, best = -1; i=0; i--) { if (vinfo[i].depth == 24) best = i; else if (vinfo[i].depth24 best0) best = i; } Try to replace 24 with 32. Since an OpenGL Pixelformat without alpha channel basically makes no sense. TOM Fred Kiefer schrieb: I hacked bestContext() in back

Re: OpenGL sample code on Linux

2009-01-18 Thread Fred Kiefer
Clemens Arth wrote: I've tried to implement the OpenGL example in Aaron Hillegass' Cocoa Programming book (chapter 33) in gnustep. Unfortunately I couldn't get it to work - the window doesn't show anything. Can someone provide me with a small simple OpenGL example in gnustep? I couldn't

Re: Can this be ported to GNUstep?

2009-01-16 Thread Fred Kiefer
Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote: This SIP VoIP program is obviously written using Cocoa: telephone - Google Code http://code.google.com/p/telephone/ What do you think? Can it be ported to GNUstep? The only way to tell is to look at the source code. Which libraries and frameworks get

Re: Question about NSMenuView

2009-01-15 Thread Fred Kiefer
Matt Rice wrote: I would probably have tried subclassing GSWindowDecorationView (like in the NiftyTitleBar bundle) and added a NSTableView without the scroll bars/headers containing strangely configured NSPopUpButtonCell's e.g pullsDown/usesItemFromMenu/preferredEdge, though I don't recall

Re: Return key in gnustep-startup-0.22.0

2009-01-12 Thread Fred Kiefer
Wolfgang Lux wrote: Am 11.01.2009 um 20:54 schrieb Fred Kiefer: Germán André Arias Santiago wrote: Hi, I have installed gnustep-startup-0.22.0 in Ubuntu 8.04. But, I have a problem with return key. For example in GWorkspace, if I select an archive and select Open with ... in the option

Re: [ANN] Slackware 12.2 Packages

2009-01-11 Thread Fred Kiefer
Stefan Bidigaray wrote: GNUstep core packages for Slackware 12.2 are now available at: Great! GNUstep-back is now shipped only with libcairo support. Unfortunately the libart backend is no longer running reliably on Slackware. Could you please be a bit more specific about the problems with

Re: Return key in gnustep-startup-0.22.0

2009-01-11 Thread Fred Kiefer
Germán André Arias Santiago wrote: Hi, I have installed gnustep-startup-0.22.0 in Ubuntu 8.04. But, I have a problem with return key. For example in GWorkspace, if I select an archive and select Open with ... in the option File. I write the app's name, and press Tab to select the Ok button.

Re: GNUstep @ FOSDEM - status update - cancel it or not?

2009-01-09 Thread Fred Kiefer
Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote: b means that there will be no official GNUstep presence on FOSDEM this year (because there's no GNUstep booth or desk this year). This also means that the message GNU says good bye to the booming world of ObjC and Cocoa and accepts the status quo of the closed

Re: our Devroom - what do we want to do there - call for papers

2009-01-08 Thread Fred Kiefer
Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: You said that the deadline for our schedule for presentations was 10th Jan. Looking at the wiki we have a daunting 14 slots, and none of them filled in yet. We ought to fill *something* in. Maybe we can repeat the schedule on the two days. Let's say I

Re: GNUstep and Theming...

2009-01-07 Thread Fred Kiefer
Gregory John Casamento wrote: Right now we do have the necessary framework in place for Themes. No, we don't :-) To allow for full theming all the gui code needs to call into GSTheme for any drawing, which we currently don't do. Richard Thematic application is great for the gui controls that

Re: gnustep back compile problem

2009-01-07 Thread Fred Kiefer
The shape extension should be part of Xext and we already check for that in our configure script. Maybe Ubuntu packages things up differently or our check isn't sufficient. Typing something like this at the prompt should tell you where the file finally came from: dlocate

Re: gnustep back compile problem

2009-01-07 Thread Fred Kiefer
David Chisnall wrote: The shape extension is a pretty basic part of X11. I don't think I've seen an X server in over a decade that didn't support it. XFixes makes it a lot simpler to use though and allows clipping lists to be stored on the server as an opaque type, and it's largely

Re: GNUstep and Theming...

2009-01-05 Thread Fred Kiefer
Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: On 4 Jan 2009, at 22:55, Gregory John Casamento wrote: I'd like to re-prioritize one of the points I mentioned in the previous email. I think that theming should be much higher priority than I stated previously. I think it should be one of our top priorities

Re: GNUstep developer meeting in January

2009-01-03 Thread Fred Kiefer
Hi Lars, Nikolaus already explained, why there is no direct competition between the developer meeting at Bergamo and FOSDEM. Last year he tried to arrange a developer gettogether the day before FOSDEM and it ended up with just me and him sitting in that horrible hotel lobby trying to find out

Re: our Devroom - what do we want to do there - call for papers

2009-01-03 Thread Fred Kiefer
h...@computer.org wrote: Some thoughts (without priorities): 1. How to install and run GNUstep on Windows That is really simple and wont help with these FOSS developers, they aren't interested in Windows. The people who are wont be there. 2. The new Cairo Backend (Cairo - Fred) The cairo

Re: make sysinstall/Makefile.preamble/GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN

2008-12-23 Thread Fred Kiefer
Nicola Pero wrote: In the end, your suggestion was too good to ignore. I wiped out my changes of yesterday, and implemented your proposal - actually a simplification/improvement of it. :-) The new system allows people building from source to completely customize where they want each

GNUstep release [Was: New Slackware + GNUstep]

2008-12-17 Thread Fred Kiefer
*From:* Fred Kiefer fredkie...@gmx.de *To:* Stefan Bidigaray stefanb...@gmail.com *Cc:* Discuss-gnustep GNUstep discuss-gnustep@gnu.org *Sent:* Friday, December 12, 2008 3:58:58 PM *Subject:* Re: New Slackware + GNUstep Stefan Bidigaray wrote: Since Slackware 12.2 was just released

Re: make sysinstall/Makefile.preamble/GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN

2008-12-15 Thread Fred Kiefer
Nicola Pero wrote: On 15 Dec 2008, at 08:46, David Ayers wrote: Am Freitag, den 12.12.2008, 16:42 -0600 schrieb Stefan Bidigaray: On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:55 PM, David Chisnall thera...@sucs.org wrote: On 12 Dec 2008, at 20:58, Fred Kiefer wrote: And we really

Re: GNUstep themes [Was: Obscure timing issue]

2008-12-12 Thread Fred Kiefer
Yes most of this discussion was just a misunderstanding. What I tried to propose, but failed to, was as simple new class layout: NSObject - GSTheme - GSTiledTheme - CustomTheme1 | \-CustomTheme2 Where we would only provide the first three classes. GSTheme will

Re: Obscure timing issue

2008-12-12 Thread Fred Kiefer
Wolfgang Lux wrote: Fred Kiefer wrote: The bigger issue is that the redraw takes so long. Here it could be that we draw too much, but it could also be that we just flush too much over to X. The first issue should be simple to detect, we just need to put a write statement before the call

Re: New Slackware + GNUstep

2008-12-12 Thread Fred Kiefer
Stefan Bidigaray wrote: Since Slackware 12.2 was just released yesterday, I thought I'd start generating packages. But before I do, I'd like to know if I should wait for a new release of -base and -gui? There was some talk on the list last week about doing a new release but I haven't heard

GNUstep themes [Was: Obscure timing issue]

2008-12-11 Thread Fred Kiefer
2008, at 23:10, Fred Kiefer wrote: I don't quite understand this argument. Currently we have the same complexity (two implementations for the same thing) mixed into one class. To me separating them into two classes sounds like a reduction in complexity. I'm primarily thinking of complexity

Re: Obscure timing issue

2008-12-10 Thread Fred Kiefer
Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: On 10 Dec 2008, at 18:56, Fred Kiefer wrote: There is the GSTheme class which wastes time looking for non existing tiles. Here I would suggest that we split up the class. Have the standard theme class that exactly does what used to be in the gui drawing code

Re: Obscure timing issue

2008-12-10 Thread Fred Kiefer
Fred Kiefer wrote: The bigger issue is that the redraw takes so long. Here it could be that we draw too much, but it could also be that we just flush too much over to X. The first issue should be simple to detect, we just need to put a write statement before the call to drawRect: in NSView

Re: gui 'slow' with remote X ?

2008-12-09 Thread Fred Kiefer
Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: On 8 Dec 2008, at 16:27, Nicolas Roard wrote: Irrespective of the scroll issue, exposing the view hierarchy to the backend would still be quite interesting: - we could have specialised backends using native widgets when available, for better integration with

Re: Obscure timing issue

2008-12-09 Thread Fred Kiefer
I found your analysis very interesting, although I will need more time to understand it in detail. I may not be able to answer all of your questions, but there is one where I think I am able to help. What triggers the redraw? This is caused by the code in NSControl mouseDown: here we set the cell

Re: SIGSEGV with 2 apps with latest SVN

2008-12-05 Thread Fred Kiefer
I recompiled GWorkspace with recent GNUstep libraries and could not reproduce this segmentation fault. Are there any special operation you where performing? Like dragging? Looking at your first bug report, I think this code might be running in a separate thread. Or why is it starting with _start?

Re: Slow localized text drawing

2008-12-03 Thread Fred Kiefer
in characterIsMember then test if font is unicode YES ok skip finding substitute font NO try to find substitute, work for me now, if i have more time i'll try to look deeper. On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Fred Kiefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: UBoss UBoss wrote

Re: gui 'slow' with remote X ?

2008-11-28 Thread Fred Kiefer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The last of these is the most relevant part here. As I recall, when we do a copy, we currently: 1) Copy the relevant parts into the (client-side) buffer. 2) Draw the new bits. 3) Copy the buffer to the client. Doesn't it use a simple XCopyArea() which is done

Re: Slow localized text drawing

2008-11-28 Thread Fred Kiefer
UBoss UBoss wrote: Using gnustep stable make - 2.0.6 base - 1.16.3 gui - 0.14.0 back - 0.14.0 (Xlib, X11) OS: solaris 10 using font Helvetica (included in gnustep) (iso10646-1 = unicode) when drawing Loclaized string (Latin2) - [NSString allioc] initWithData:

Re: SIGSEGV with 2 apps with latest SVN

2008-11-27 Thread Fred Kiefer
in [ScrubbingBar dealloc] and see where this gets called from. If it doesn't get called then my whole theory is worthless and we have to think anew. And all of this wont help to solve your first issue. I am totally at loss there. Fred Charles philip Chan wrote: Fred Kiefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could

Re: SIGSEGV with 2 apps with latest SVN

2008-11-26 Thread Fred Kiefer
Charles philip Chan wrote: Fred Kiefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fine, but could you please provide the new back traces? I am not using GWorkspace and MplayerGS myself and it could well be that there is a problem in the way these application are using frame transformation or in the way we

Re: SIGSEGV with 2 apps with latest SVN

2008-11-25 Thread Fred Kiefer
Charles philip Chan wrote: Fred Kiefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Are you sure that there are no old GNUstep libraries on that machine? The old GNUStep tree was moved out of the way before the fresh compilation- so there are no old libraries hanging around. The difference between the my

Re: gui 'slow' with remote X ?

2008-11-24 Thread Fred Kiefer
David Chisnall wrote: On 23 Nov 2008, at 22:11, Riccardo Mottola wrote: Nice to see there is another user. FOr me, besides, GTK2 is slow too. Cairo and Art are going to be slow. No work around. Try the faithful xlib backend, which I use regularly. It will be faster, since instead of

Re: SIGSEGV with 2 apps with latest SVN

2008-11-24 Thread Fred Kiefer
Charles philip Chan wrote: Gregory John Casamento [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I rebuilt all of GNUstep and GSWorkspace from scratch after a full update. Please try doing a make clean in both of those application's source directories and rebuild and let me know if that solves the issue. I

Re: SIGSEGV with 2 apps with latest SVN

2008-11-23 Thread Fred Kiefer
Charles philip Chan wrote: I upgraded to the latest svn and I am getting SIGSEGV with both GWorkspace and MplayerGS while othe apps works fine. Have anyone else encountered this? This is a fresh installation and here are the backtraces: In both gdb logs I see views with a width of zero. It

Re: Gridlock crashing

2008-11-23 Thread Fred Kiefer
, Nov 2, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Stefan Bidigaray [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Fred Kiefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this a multi threaded application? Until August this year we had

Re: Is there going to be a release soon?

2008-11-21 Thread Fred Kiefer
Adam Fedor wrote: On Nov 21, 2008, at 9:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And one thing makes me wonder a little: why is it still a 0.15 release? After so many years of work. From a marketing view this looks like an instable experiment and not as something that can be

Re: Fwd: Pro-Linux News: Étoilé 0.4.0 frei gegeben

2008-11-19 Thread Fred Kiefer
Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote: Found at a german Linux News Site: Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2008/13479.html Oops, I noticed from the Etoile mailing list that they made a release, but I overlooked that no mail was sent to any of the GNUstep mailing

Re: quick poll

2008-11-18 Thread Fred Kiefer
likely, but not sure. Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote: Hi, I am under the impression that interest in having a booth/dev room at the next FOSDEM is not as strong as in the years before. So before I start the effort of organizing something I want to know who is likely or not likely to

Re: GNUstep @ FOSDEM 2009 - 7th and 8th February 2009

2008-11-16 Thread Fred Kiefer
Helge Hess wrote: On 09.11.2008, at 08:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not seen a discussion so far, but want to let all of you know that FOSDEM 2009 has been announced: http://www.fosdem.org/2009/node/150 Unfortunately, I can't contribute this time so others have to take care. Is

Re: NSProcessInfo -processorCount, -activeProcessorCount, -physicalMemory

2008-11-13 Thread Fred Kiefer
Having an implementation for these methods would be nice, but going down the /proc/something parsing route seems wrong to me. Why not call sysconf() with _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF (on my GUN/Linux system this is defined in /usr/include/bits/confname.h). This too is a system specific solution, but at

Re: NSProcessInfo -processorCount, -activeProcessorCount, -physicalMemory

2008-11-13 Thread Fred Kiefer
Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: On 13 Nov 2008, at 08:42, Fred Kiefer wrote: Having an implementation for these methods would be nice, but going down the /proc/something parsing route seems wrong to me. Why not call sysconf() with _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF (on my GUN/Linux system

Re: NSScrollView does not scroll

2008-11-08 Thread Fred Kiefer
Andreas Höschler wrote: I am setting up a scrollview sublcass as follows: - (id)initWithFrame:(NSRect)frame { self = [super initWithFrame:frame]; [self setHasVerticalScroller:YES]; NSSize contentSize = [self contentSize]; NSView *view = [[TimeTableView alloc]

Re: Gridlock crashing

2008-11-02 Thread Fred Kiefer
Stefan Bidigaray wrote: For some reason, I don't think this is a Gridlock bug. Gridlock has always worked fairly flawlessly for me, and this only started after installing atop the latest stable GNUstep release. The attached file is a backtrace after the crash. Is this a multi threaded

Re: Cocotron used for a real-world app

2008-11-02 Thread Fred Kiefer
Nicola Pero wrote: Anyway, you have good points that cross-compiling from Xcode might be appealing to some people. :-) It wouldn't be difficult to set up a similar thing for cross-compiling from Apple to Windows using GNUstep. You need to get a MinGW cross-compilation environment running

Re: NSPredicate

2008-10-31 Thread Fred Kiefer
Samantha Rahn wrote: What types of syntax can and cannot be used in NSPredicate? When I use companyName CONTAINS 'Corp' I get: NAME:NSInvalidArgumentException REASON:Format string contains extra characters: companyName CONTAINS 'Corp' I had a look at the source code and it

Re: NSPredicate

2008-10-31 Thread Fred Kiefer
Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: On 31 Oct 2008, at 20:20, Fred Kiefer wrote: Samantha Rahn wrote: What types of syntax can and cannot be used in NSPredicate? When I use companyName CONTAINS 'Corp' I get: NAME:NSInvalidArgumentException REASON:Format string contains extra

Re: NSWindowController should be a NSResponder (part 2)

2008-10-31 Thread Fred Kiefer
Wolfgang Lux wrote: Fred Kiefer wrote: Thank you for those follow up patches. I applied them with slight changes. Please check whether I made any mistake here. Unfortunately, you did. The method -encodeWithCoder: always encodes the super class fields in the archive, even if the class

Re: ..., and a bug fix for NSWorkspace

2008-10-31 Thread Fred Kiefer
Wolfgang Lux wrote: NSWorkspace's isFilePackageAtPath: method has a serious bug: It considers all directories file packages. The attached patch fixes this so that only directories ending with one of the known extensions app, debug, profile, and bundle, and also directories which are claimed

Re: NSButtons and the Return key

2008-10-31 Thread Fred Kiefer
Looks like we all are in favour of Wolfgangs new behaviour. So let's move to that. Fred Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf wrote: Am 29.10.2008 um 19:07 schrieb Richard Frith-Macdonald: On 29 Oct 2008, at 17:24, Wolfgang Lux wrote: In response to my little rant about broken key view loops in the

Re: Cocotron used for a real-world app

2008-10-29 Thread Fred Kiefer
Gregory John Casamento wrote: One more thing... It says that they spent two months adding: • Added unicode path support to the NSFileManager class. • Added support for displaying truncated strings. • Added support for drawing unicode strings. (Not very pretty support.) • Fixed some issues

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