Re: Cocotron used for a real-world app

2008-10-29 Thread Fred Kiefer
Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: On 29 Oct 2008, at 09:01, Fred Kiefer wrote: I think this is not completely true. At least I think that • Added support for displaying truncated strings. is still on the list of the thinks to do :-) I don't even know what this is ... so I can't tell

Re: X-Windows errors

2008-10-26 Thread Fred Kiefer
Philippe Roussel wrote: Le samedi 25 octobre 2008 à 17:24 +0200, Fred Kiefer a écrit : If this wasn't the source of the problem then we need to dig deeper. The first thing to do is to run the application with a debugger attached and set a break point into XGErrorHandler and report

Re: problem running apps with cairo backend

2008-10-26 Thread Fred Kiefer
Krishna wrote: However when I run the apps, I get font not found errors. eg: 2008-10-26 09:55:40.763 SystemPreferences[15591] The font specified for NSFont, Helvetica, can't be found. Assuming the cairo backend uses fontconfig I tried `fc-match helvetica` and it returned a valid font

Re: Windows as a reference platform (was Re: GNUStep on Windows)

2008-10-25 Thread Fred Kiefer
We should stay realistic here and keep up the distinction between what we want to achieve and what we already have. Base on Windows works very well and should be usable in commercial applications. GUI itself should be mostly alright, although NSWorkspace may need some more tweaking. But Back on

Re: X-Windows errors

2008-10-25 Thread Fred Kiefer
I made a rather far fetching change last night to the XWindowBuffer class, so my first thought is that this change may have triggered your problem. I left the old code in place and you could test whether my change caused this by changing the line #if 0 into #if 1 If this wasn't the source of the

Re: NSWindowController should be a NSResponder (part 2)

2008-10-24 Thread Fred Kiefer
Thank you for those follow up patches. I applied them with slight changes. Please check whether I made any mistake here. Fred Wolfgang Lux wrote: I wrote: This patch fixes an issue that has bugged me already for quite a while -- NSWindowController should be a subclass of NSResponder and be

Re: NSMenu fix

2008-10-24 Thread Fred Kiefer
Applied, as there was no differing opinion. Wolfgang Lux wrote: Fred Kiefer wrote: Wolfgang Lux wrote: The following patch fixes NSMenu's -indexOfItemWithTarget:andAction: method so that it becomes possible to look up items with a nil target, i.e., which send their action to the first

Re: NSWindowController should be a NSResponder

2008-10-23 Thread Fred Kiefer
Committed. Thank you for this patch! Fred PS: Only gui applications using a custom subclass of NSWindowController need to be recompiled. Wolfgang Lux wrote: This patch fixes an issue that has bugged me already for quite a while -- NSWindowController should be a subclass of NSResponder and be

Re: NSMenu fix

2008-10-23 Thread Fred Kiefer
Wolfgang Lux wrote: The following patch fixes NSMenu's -indexOfItemWithTarget:andAction: method so that it becomes possible to look up items with a nil target, i.e., which send their action to the first responder. I am not that sure about this change. My current idea is to check whether the

Re: GNUstep on FreeBSD problems

2008-10-22 Thread Fred Kiefer
Fred Kiefer wrote: Wolfgang Lux wrote: thank you for this detailed report. I tried to resolve the inconsistency you found between the visual used by the window and the one expected by the art backend. Could you please give my updated code a try and report back, whether this helps. thanks

Re: All GNUstep apps have blank windows, and lots of apps won't compile

2008-10-21 Thread Fred Kiefer
I will only reply on the display problem. Form your mail I would expect that you are using the default art backand and this issue is caused by an unusual display mode. When you start up a GNUstep application is there any message? There are known issues for some 16 bit display modes for the art

Re: Focus problem

2008-10-18 Thread Fred Kiefer
Could you please explain, why you are using an explicit value of -10 for the window level? GNUstep doesn't give any guarantees about these values. For a pour GNUstep application it would be best to use NSDesktopWindowLevel, a GNUstep extension to the offical Cocoa windows levels. I can see the

Re: application not quitting

2008-10-15 Thread Fred Kiefer
Gregory Weston wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marko Riedel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the environment is KDE 3.5 (sorry, I had no choice in the matter), but the same problem occurs with WindowMaker. The application is not document-based and does have an application delegate and

Re: GUI on OS X?

2008-10-15 Thread Fred Kiefer
Matt Rice wrote: It appears that there are still 3 .gorm files without .nib file equivalent, Hmm, I might be wrong here, but shouldn't loading those .gorm files into Gorm and saving them as .nib files provide some starting point for the remaining work on the Mac?

Re: application not quitting

2008-10-14 Thread Fred Kiefer
Hi Marko, I heard from Riccardo that he is facing similar problems. Could you please detail your environment and the applications that are failing to stop? Are they document based, do you use an application delegate? Does replyToApplicationShouldTerminate: get called? With what value as

Re: Building new Slackare packages

2008-10-05 Thread Fred Kiefer
Sorry to reply only to one of your multiple issues. Stefan Bidigaray wrote: 1) Art backend doesn't work with 16 bit depth. All I get are white (blank) windows, controls still work using keyboard short cuts (tested with Ink.app and hitting ctrl-n to create a new document). Switching to 24

Re: GNUstep on FreeBSD problems

2008-09-17 Thread Fred Kiefer
Wolfgang Lux wrote: thank you for this detailed report. I tried to resolve the inconsistency you found between the visual used by the window and the one expected by the art backend. Could you please give my updated code a try and report back, whether this helps. thanks for the fix. It did

Re: GNUstep on FreeBSD problems

2008-09-14 Thread Fred Kiefer
Hi Wolfgang, thank you for this detailed report. I tried to resolve the inconsistency you found between the visual used by the window and the one expected by the art backend. Could you please give my updated code a try and report back, whether this helps. Cheers, Fred Wolfgang Lux wrote:

Re: Latest GNUstep problems

2008-09-05 Thread Fred Kiefer
Andreas Höschler wrote: I just did some tests with the latest GNustep downloaded yesterday on Solaris 10 with Etoile switched off for now to exclude potential problems caused by Etoile overloads. I encountered massive problems experimenting with TextEdit.app and Affiche.app, e.g. selecting

Re: Two questions about NSView class

2008-08-05 Thread Fred Kiefer
(10,10,20,10)] ;[self addSubview: texto] ;RELEASE(texto); Then, I don't know if I need release this after. --- El mar 29-jul-08, Fred Kiefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: De: Fred Kiefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: Two questions about NSView class A: Germán Arias [EMAIL PROTECTED], discuss

Re: NSTableView, highlight color

2008-08-01 Thread Fred Kiefer
am Di, 29.7.2008: Von: Marko Riedel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: NSTableView, highlight color An: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org, Fred Kiefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Datum: Dienstag, 29. Juli 2008, 19:35 I'll try this right now. I don't want to change all cells, only the ones in the selected row

Re: NSTableView, highlight color

2008-07-29 Thread Fred Kiefer
Not sure, what you want to achive, but there is setBackgroundColor: on NSTableView which will set the colour of the actual table background. In the delegate method tableView:willDisplayCell:forTableColumn:row: you may set the cell background, the value to display is only set later on and is

Re: NSOpenGL

2008-07-29 Thread Fred Kiefer
I am not sure, how full screen mode for OpenGL should work. What always should work is to create a borderless window the size of the screen and set a high window level. Setting the window style to 0 should give you such a window. You should be able to get the resolution from NSScreen and there

Re: Two questions about NSView class

2008-07-29 Thread Fred Kiefer
Did you already get an answer to these questions? First of all, in Objective-C you should not be concerned too much about memory. Normally things just happen correctly. When you remove a view from the hierarchy with removeSubView: then that view may or may not be freed. What happens is the it

Re: NSTableView, rows in reverse order

2008-07-24 Thread Fred Kiefer
I think what you are seeing is the correct behaviour. It should even be the same on MacOSX, but I am unable to test at the moment. What happens is that you draw into a view you just created and this view isn't flipped, whereas an NSTableView is flipped. That way the rows show up in the wrong

Re: Help with dynamic menus

2008-07-19 Thread Fred Kiefer
Charles philip Chan wrote: Now that dvdnav is working in MplayerGS, the next thing I want to work on is language and angle selections and a DVD navigator menu. However, I am not too sure how to do the dynamic menus. Can some one point me in the right direction? Not sure, what you mean by

Re: [Emacs.app dev]: Problems compiling Emacs.app with GNUstep

2008-07-15 Thread Fred Kiefer
Not sure what you are trying to do here, but you definitly don't want to debug make, you want to debug the bootstrap-emacs. Most likely you will want to send the following command: EMACSLOADPATH=/usr/src/packages/BUILD/emacs/lisp LC_ALL=C gdb ../src/bootstrap-emacs -batch --no-site-file

Re: ANN: BatMon 0.3

2008-07-07 Thread Fred Kiefer
David Chisnall wrote: On 6 Jul 2008, at 23:40, Riccardo wrote: Currently, it works only on Linux with ACPI with 2.6 kernels since it reads files in /proc and relies on that format. It runs also on FreeBSD thanks to patches by Chris Vetter. I've written code in SystemConfig in the Étoilé

DBus Framework (Was: ANN: BatMon 0.3)

2008-07-07 Thread Fred Kiefer
David Chisnall wrote: On 7 Jul 2008, at 15:07, Fred Kiefer wrote: David Chisnall wrote: On 6 Jul 2008, at 23:40, Riccardo wrote: Currently, it works only on Linux with ACPI with 2.6 kernels since it reads files in /proc and relies on that format. It runs also on FreeBSD thanks to patches

Re: svn error

2008-07-03 Thread Fred Kiefer
Scott Christley wrote: Hello, When I do an anonymous checkout of the repository svn co http://svn.gna.org/svn/gnustep/modules gnustep-svn I get this error: svn: In directory 'gnustep-svn/usr-apps/gsldapwebexplorer' svn: Can't copy

Re: disappearing panels

2008-07-01 Thread Fred Kiefer
Marko Riedel wrote: Hi folks, I am developing a GNUstep application that will have to run under KDE. I have no choice in the matter, as it's been decided for me. ;-) I have a problem with Gorm.app and in fact, all other applications I've tried (not only my own) that only display panels on

Re: Problems with gpbs

2008-06-30 Thread Fred Kiefer
Marko Riedel wrote: just in case anyone is interested, I'm also having the slow focus problem with NSTextField (startup-0.19.3). Furthermore, I was a bit disappointed that the NSSecureTextField does not display dots or circles (looks like it just uses white text on a white background). I

Re: Problems in RTFConsumer using TimeMon.app on 64 bit system

2008-06-29 Thread Fred Kiefer
I don't use a 64 bit system, so it is quite likely that there are gui or back features not perfectly working on such a system. Form looking at the code itself I cannot see how this should result in an error even on a 64-bit machine, but of course your compiler sees it differently. :-) Would you

Re: Complex script rendering

2008-06-04 Thread Fred Kiefer
Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: i am planning on developing an application and wanted to find out if the GnuStep libraries (especially Test display) is capable of rendering complex script ligatures - especially Indian languages? I will be using Unicode for all text and want to be sure they can be

Re: RFC: Non-fragile ivars

2008-06-03 Thread Fred Kiefer
I like this whole idea a lot, but we will need a bit more performance testing to make sure we understand the consequences. What I did not quite get is where are we going to store the size of the different classes? Perhaps a more detailed outline of the algorithm would help here. Fred Saso

Re: TextEdit.app problems X11

2008-05-27 Thread Fred Kiefer
Sorry, I still have no idea where this is comming from. Could you please give gdb another try and this time add a break point in NSException raise to get a back trace of the error (b [NSExcpetion raise] followed after the break point is reached by bt). Perhaps this will tell us more. Fred

Re: GNUstep on GNewSense 2.0

2008-05-07 Thread Fred Kiefer
Not sure how this is releate your your previously reported problem. But with that error message it is best to recompile all of GNUstep from scratch making sure that no old part is left over. Most likely you have some bits of GNUstep lying around that are left over from previous installation

Re: embedded GNUstep / mySTEP @ Linuxtag Berlin, 28-31th May

2008-05-06 Thread Fred Kiefer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2 Mai, 10:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I was asked by friends to make a presentation similar to the FOSDEM 08 show at Linuxtag, and the proposal was accepted. So, there will be a small (less than 1x1m) area to show the Zaurus, the

Re: GNUstep slowness while drawing

2008-04-30 Thread Fred Kiefer
Andreas Höschler wrote: While preparing the stripped down application I figured out that this has nothing to do with event handling but is indeed a drawing problem. The stripped down version (subclass of NSView) worked perfectly also under GNUstep. My ObjectBrowserView was actually a subclass

Re: The orca, GNUstep's mascot

2008-04-29 Thread Fred Kiefer
Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: RELEASE was introduced to completely remove the call to -release in the case when gc was enabled. Apple have now effectively done the same thing by modifying the compiler to remove the call itsself... we went for a more portable solution, but as they control the

Re: GNUstep slowness while drawing

2008-04-29 Thread Fred Kiefer
Andreas Höschler wrote: Hi all, I have a view subclass with - (void)mouseDown:(NSEvent *)theEvent { NSPoint locA = [self convertPoint:[theEvent locationInWindow] fromView:nil]; BOOL shiftPressed = (([theEvent modifierFlags] NSShiftKeyMask) 0); BOOL keepOn = YES; BOOL hasDragged

Re: GNUstep slowness while drawing

2008-04-29 Thread Fred Kiefer
Andreas Höschler wrote: Hi Fred, Andreas Höschler wrote: Hi all, I have a view subclass with - (void)mouseDown:(NSEvent *)theEvent { NSPoint locA = [self convertPoint:[theEvent locationInWindow] fromView:nil]; BOOL shiftPressed = (([theEvent modifierFlags] NSShiftKeyMask) 0);

Re: Mouse pointer image

2008-04-26 Thread Fred Kiefer
Andreas Höschler wrote: Hello all, when performing drag operations between apps (move, copy,...) the image of the mouse pointer is changed from an arrow to the link sign or the copy sign known from OPENSTEP. This works great. However, sometimes the image is not switched back to the normal

Re: TextEdit.app problems X11

2008-04-23 Thread Fred Kiefer
You will need to provide more information than this. Is this the first error you get or is there anything else before that? Could you please run the TextEdit application with gdb (eg openapp --debug TextEdit) and set a break point on XGErrorHandler and report back from where this gets called?

Re: Central GNUstep software index?

2008-04-19 Thread Fred Kiefer
David Wetzel wrote: we had this already, and it was dropped in favour of the wiki. http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Category:Applications You may reach this with two clicks from the GNUstep web site. On the other hand if you see any limitations with that approach we should re-discuss it

Re: GNUstep Google Summer of Code 2008

2008-03-30 Thread Fred Kiefer
Adam Fedor wrote: GNustep was accepted as a mentoring organization for 2008 Google SoC! However, that means we have a lot of work to do in the next few weeks. There is barely a week before students are able to submit applications for projects, and only a week after that is the deadline for

Re: Things I'd like to hear more about (from FOSDEM notes)

2008-03-04 Thread Fred Kiefer
Stefan Bidigaray wrote: 2. The SUSE packages. I thought there were SUSE packages already, is this something else then? The guy who talked to me about Suse packages was Will Stephenson and he already works together with Richard Stonehouse who does the GNustep packages for Suse. They both have

Re: FOSDEM 2008

2008-02-21 Thread Fred Kiefer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also booked into the SUN hotel and will be there from Friday on. Are we planing to have a developers meeting there on Friday or only one on Saturday morning? With the Etoile people I would rather suggest to have one in the evening, as they never seem to get up that

Re: FOSDEM 2008

2008-02-18 Thread Fred Kiefer
Nicolas Roard wrote: On Jan 26, 2008 4:40 PM, Richard Frith-Macdonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 25 Jan 2008, at 22:18, Nicola Pero wrote: Actually I wonder why I made a fuss with Pascal to get a GNUstep booth when no one wants to have one? (who will be tending the booth on

Re: gcc build error

2008-02-16 Thread Fred Kiefer
Andreas Höschler wrote: Hi all, I am just giving Solaris Express a try. My first action after installing the os is of course building gcc to get Objective-C support. Unfortunately the build fails cd /usr/src gunzip gcc-3.4.4.tar.gz tar xvf gcc-3.4.4.tar cd gcc-3.4.4

Re: gcc with Objective-C support

2008-02-08 Thread Fred Kiefer
I don't expect gmp to help here. This just happens to be the last test before the actual failure. What may help is to copy in the original code from GCC, but I don't know for sure. Cheers, Fred Dennis Leeuw wrote: Hi Andreas, It seems that you are just missing GNU MP: http://gmplib.org/

Re: Trouble running the cairo backend

2008-02-07 Thread Fred Kiefer
TMC wrote: Fred Kiefer wrote: It would also be great to switch to the current SVN source to see if the problem still persists or has already been resolved. Cheers, Fred The other diagnostic suggestions you offered were over my head. I did check out revision 26027 from SVN, and got

Re: Trouble running the cairo backend

2008-02-02 Thread Fred Kiefer
if the problem still persists or has already been resolved. Cheers, Fred TMC wrote: Fred Kiefer wrote: Could you please run it with --debug to start up gdb? This could show us the location of the problem. The most likely reason is that somewhere we get an error status from cairo and fail to check

Re: cairo backend on Solaris

2008-01-27 Thread Fred Kiefer
As far as I know, you don't need glitz to run the cairo backend. For me cairo with glitz didn't work for a long time and I haven't tested this combination since then. When compiling the GNUstep backend you need to tell it to use cairo. What I do is make distclean; ./configure --with-name=cairo

Window flickering (Was: Question on mini windows)

2008-01-11 Thread Fred Kiefer
Andreas Schik wrote: On 2008-01-10 22:15:31 +0100 Sas(o Kiselkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It used to work on gnustep-gui-0.11 without any problem. Also, when I I can confirm that. gui-0.12 worked for me as well. run an app in my X environment, it start spawning a window a large

Re: Question on mini windows

2008-01-10 Thread Fred Kiefer
Andreas Schik wrote: On 2008-01-08 18:52:49 +0100 Fred Kiefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sas wrote: I've observed the same behavior, art backend. It seems the backend doesn't inform the WM about the window being iconified, so it doesn't appear as a miniwindow in WindowMaker, or as a window

Re: Have there been recent changes in DnD?

2008-01-10 Thread Fred Kiefer
Andreas Schik wrote: since I 'upgraded' to yesterdays SVN og GNUstep I do have problems with DnD in GNUMail. Have there been any changes in the underlying mechanisms making it necessary to change applications? The basic mechanism hasn't changed since April last year. What has changed a bit

Re: Question on mini windows

2008-01-08 Thread Fred Kiefer
Sas wrote: I've observed the same behavior, art backend. It seems the backend doesn't inform the WM about the window being iconified, so it doesn't appear as a miniwindow in WindowMaker, or as a window-icon in any other WM (tested on Gnome and KDE). Yes, this is what is happening. When the

Re: Possible problem with gnustep-gui 0.12.1 header NSStringDrawing.h

2008-01-02 Thread Fred Kiefer
Richard Stonehouse wrote: Building an application, I hit the following error: Compiling file NSCellExtensions.m ... In file included from NSCellExtensions.m:23: /usr/include/AppKit/NSStringDrawing.h:36:19: error: missing binary operator before token ( The relevant line in

Re: GNUstep Windows Installer

2007-12-28 Thread Fred Kiefer
Adam Fedor wrote: I've updated the Windows installer. Now the system and depend installers are combined into one. So you only need to install two installers to get GNUstep working. http://www.gnustep.org/experience/Windows.html I also added a Gorm.app installer. I'll get more as I have

Re: GNUstep Windows Installer

2007-12-28 Thread Fred Kiefer
Fred Kiefer wrote: After all that I still have problem starting up an application. This is caused by gui not finding the backend. I expect that this is caused by some unusual language settings (German) on my computer. At least this is the only hint I get from GNUstep. I report back

Re: Thoughts on font management

2007-12-11 Thread Fred Kiefer
similar. And for the art backend your code would be a big improvement. You should think about adding it there. Again perhaps as an option. Cheers, Fred Fred Kiefer wrote: Isaiah Beerbower wrote: On 12/10/07, Fred Kiefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isaiah Beerbower wrote: On 12/10/07, Fred Kiefer

Re: Thoughts on font management

2007-12-10 Thread Fred Kiefer
Isaiah Beerbower wrote: On 12/10/07, Fred Kiefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isaiah Beerbower wrote: On 12/10/07, Fred Kiefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isaiah Beerbower wrote: I have an almost complete implementation working with the cairo back end. Should I create a new branch for it under

Re: Differences between Gnu-step and Cocoa

2007-12-09 Thread Fred Kiefer
David Chisnall wrote: - Reading nib files on GNUstep is still somewhat hit and miss. Some things work perfectly, some fail weirdly. If you are encountering strange bugs, try redrawing your nibs in gorm. This is the only point, where I have to diverge from Davids great answer. Redoing your

Re: Menu windows appear in window manager windows list ?

2007-11-30 Thread Fred Kiefer
Truls Becken wrote: I do see another issue, though. When right-clicking an app-icon, the menu springs up temporarily under the mouse, but since the app-icon is net_wm_window_type_dock, the menu always appears *below* it. I think the window type of at least one of them should be changed. Since

Re: Menu windows appear in window manager windows list ?

2007-11-28 Thread Fred Kiefer
Truls Becken wrote: On Nov 22, 2007 11:28 AM, Fred Kiefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see from xprop that _NET_WM_STATE is not set on the menus. How about setting that to _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR and _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_PAGER ? My panel does this in addition to _NET_WM_WINDOW_TYPE_DOCK. We

Re: Menu windows appear in window manager windows list ?

2007-11-22 Thread Fred Kiefer
Truls Becken wrote: On Nov 21, 2007 7:38 PM, Gregory John Casamento [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm saying it is a bug if it shows menu windows as windows in the window list. They shouldn't show up there. Whether that's a bug in Metacity or GNUstep remains unclear. It happens in OpenBox as

Re: Menu windows appear in window manager windows list ?

2007-11-21 Thread Fred Kiefer
Philippe Roussel wrote: I'm wondering if the following is a bug or a feature ? Using Metacity (I haven't tried with another window manager), contextual menu windows of GNUstep apps appear in the window manager windows list, whereas the main menu windows don't. I don't see any advantage for

Re: Setting checkbox with keyboard

2007-11-19 Thread Fred Kiefer
Andreas Höschler wrote: Hi all, I want to have a checkbox in a tableview and be able to tab into it from the column to its left with the TAB key and then set its state with the keyboard (e.g. the space key, any other would be fine as well). This is to avoid the need to use the mouse for

Re: Setting checkbox with keyboard

2007-11-19 Thread Fred Kiefer
Andreas Höschler wrote: Hoi, Andreas Höschler wrote: Hi all, I want to have a checkbox in a tableview and be able to tab into it from the column to its left with the TAB key and then set its state with the keyboard (e.g. the space key, any other would be fine as well). This is to avoid

Re: How to change the default font sizes

2007-11-16 Thread Fred Kiefer
Here is what the documentation in NSFont says about default keys to change the font sizes: The default sizes are: /p list itemNSBoldFontSize(none)/item itemNSControlContentFontSize (none)/item itemNSFontSize12 (System Font Size)/item

Re: Two gui changes

2007-11-15 Thread Fred Kiefer
Wolfgang Lux wrote: Andreas Höschler wrote: This NSAssert killed a presentation today! :-( My application died with an uncaught exception while trying to show a message with NSRunAlterPanel. What is this NSAssert good for? Quoted from Apple's documentation of -convertRect:toView:

Re: Native widgets (was: Re: So, honestly, is GNUStep a viable development option?)

2007-11-15 Thread Fred Kiefer
Nicolas Roard wrote: On Nov 13, 2007 2:16 PM, Mark Grice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But dialog boxes are a prime example of what would be better if it were native. For example: Ubuntu has Samba, which allows me to get to the windows drives on my network. It also allows me to view thumbnails of

Re: Objective-C 2.0 and other new features in Leopard

2007-11-12 Thread Fred Kiefer
David Chisnall wrote: Note that this is already possible; a packager can always grab Camaelon from Étoilé and add a Camaelon package to their GNUstep metapackage, but there is no information on the GNUstep site about doing this and so most people don't. There are no screenshots on the GNUstep

Re: Site Redesign (was: Objective-C 2.0 and other new features in Leopard)

2007-11-12 Thread Fred Kiefer
Jesse Ross wrote: I guess I didn't explain that point too well. What I was trying to say is that image size detracts from the other contents on the page. I agree that we should have GNUstep images on the homepage, just not that big. When reading the content you had on that mock-up (I'm just

Re: Objective-C 2.0 and other new features in Leopard

2007-11-12 Thread Fred Kiefer
Stefan Bidigaray wrote: That reminds me of another point worth discussing... the defaults system. What you're saying here is not simple to do exactly because the user HAS to change the defaults themselves. Take for example GTK+ settings, all a distribution have to do to get a new look is add

Re: Site Redesign (was: Objective-C 2.0 and other new features in Leopard)

2007-11-12 Thread Fred Kiefer
Jesse Ross wrote: What I am missing on these web pages are the links for developers. OK, this is very egoistic, but this was one of the few reasons for me to check out the GNUstep page from time to time, it was a hub for different development links. We surely can improve on that :-) What

Re: Objective-C 2.0 and other new features in Leopard

2007-11-10 Thread Fred Kiefer
Sorry for top posting, but surely you all have read the previous mails and I just wanted to state how much I agree with them. We, that is GNUstep, need to make a better impression on the market. We are all lot better then how GNUstep is perceived. Now that a fresh release of GNUstep is out, will

Re: NSBrowser, allow empty selection, active delegates and wrong columns

2007-11-05 Thread Fred Kiefer
Nikolaus Waxweiler wrote: I just stumbled over the following: I have a NSBrowser, an active delegate to fill it in and an action method when I click on some item. I also disabled allow empty selection, so when I click a branch in one column, the first item of the next one is automatically

Re: ANN: PictureFrame 1.0.0

2007-11-04 Thread Fred Kiefer
Sebastian Reitenbach wrote: Hi Adam, Adam Fedor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PictureFrame version 1.0.0 is available. PictureFrame.app == PictureFrame.app is an application meant to be run on your own home- built digital picture frame (e.g. an old laptop you've taken

Re: Drag Drop Problem

2007-11-01 Thread Fred Kiefer
I tried to reproduce this problem with NSImageView and after removing the check for ([sender draggingSource] != self) in draggingEntered: it is possible to drag onto the same view. This means it isn't a general problem in GNUstep. Either it is related to you specific class or NSDragOperationLink

Re: Drag Drop Problem

2007-11-01 Thread Fred Kiefer
Andreas Höschler wrote: I tried to reproduce this problem with NSImageView and after removing the check for ([sender draggingSource] != self) in draggingEntered: it is possible to drag onto the same view. My SRCalendarView is a subclass of NSImageView. I have overwritten (for test purposes)

Re: Drag Drop Problem

2007-10-23 Thread Fred Kiefer
Are you referring to the same view that started the drag? It is possible that GNUstep excludes this view from getting drag notifications. If you mean another view, is it in the same application, same window? Is this the first time you use dragdrop and if nto, what is the difference? Fred

Re: Refresh display bug

2007-10-14 Thread Fred Kiefer
Jonathan Hepburn wrote: On 10/12/07, Fred Kiefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently looking through old GNUstep mails and found this one. The behaviour you describe used to be a problem caused by GNUstep using the wrong font metrics. I never understood why this issue resulted

Re: Refresh display bug

2007-10-11 Thread Fred Kiefer
I am currently looking through old GNUstep mails and found this one. The behaviour you describe used to be a problem caused by GNUstep using the wrong font metrics. I never understood why this issue resulted in this specific output. Now I haven't seen such output in GNUstep for years. Either you

Re: Three small GUI patches

2007-10-11 Thread Fred Kiefer
I applied all these patches although I cannot see the difference that the last one will do. Could you please review the version you send to this list once more? Fred Wolfgang Lux wrote: Hello, here are three small patches for gui. The first of these is an urgent fix for an issue in

Re: focus problem

2007-10-10 Thread Fred Kiefer
Yen-Ju Chen wrote: For minimization, I can add _GNUSTEP_WM_MINIATURIZE_WINDOW atom in Azalea. It is just another GNUstep-specific atom for window manager. It would also be nice that GNUstep can remove the check for WindowMaker (XGServerWindow.m, line 813 and 1960) for that atom so

Re: A few things that have been on my mind...

2007-10-03 Thread Fred Kiefer
Gregory John Casamento wrote: I defer to Adam and Fred respectively on those two questions.Adam was involved in SoC and Fred is currently working on the Cairo backend. - Original Message From: Stefan Bidigaray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: DISCUSS GNUstep discuss-gnustep@gnu.org Sent:

Re: NSDocument fix

2007-10-01 Thread Fred Kiefer
Wolfgang Lux wrote: Hello list! The following patch improves my previous fix to the -fileName/-setFileName: compatibility code in NSDocument. The patch now ensures that the document's URL is nil if the file name is nil. Note that NSDocument uses [self fileURL] in a few places and checks

Re: openapp Gorm

2007-09-29 Thread Fred Kiefer
silvercreekvalley wrote: Hi, After a bit of a struggle :) - I managed to get gnustep-startup up and running on a Sun SPARC running Solaris 10. Everything compiles up OK as far as I can tell, and it installs normally in /usr/GNUstep However, if I build Gorm (which also builds and

Re: Just installed GNUstep from SVN and have a bunch of issues

2007-09-12 Thread Fred Kiefer
Stefan Bidigaray wrote: OK, looks like I didn't update the test suite after all! Anyway, here it is. Looks like it still fails, but it's just a plain fail, not a compile fail. I really don't understand, what is going on here. And it is hard to tell without the tests.log file. Why are you so

Re: Just installed GNUstep from SVN and have a bunch of issues

2007-09-11 Thread Fred Kiefer
Stefan Bidigaray wrote: Alright, I updated everything just now. Cairo works OK now, but I'm getting that annoying cursor bug which I hadn't seen in a while under art. I'm also attaching the test suite outputs. I forgot to add the base one last time and got the same failures this time.

Re: Just installed GNUstep from SVN and have a bunch of issues

2007-09-11 Thread Fred Kiefer
Stefan Bidigaray wrote: On 9/11/07, *Fred Kiefer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you update the test suite from SVN before running your tests? At least the last gui error (compilation fail) should be fixed in SVN. Fred I did, at least I think I did

Re: Just installed GNUstep from SVN and have a bunch of issues

2007-09-10 Thread Fred Kiefer
Stefan Bidigaray wrote: On 9/9/07, *Fred Kiefer* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If cairo is not working for you, you are most likely working on FreeBSD. We already have a few bug report about this. But with no way to reproduce this I am a bit stuck in solving

Re: Just installed GNUstep from SVN and have a bunch of issues

2007-09-09 Thread Fred Kiefer
Stefan Bidigaray wrote: Like the title says, I just installed GS again but ran into some annoying bugs. I'll list them here, but let me know if you guys would rather have me report them using savannah... - Cairo back end just simple doesn't work. All I get are completely white windows

Re: Fix for window flicks when getting focused

2007-09-09 Thread Fred Kiefer
Yen-Ju Chen wrote: On 9/7/07, Fred Kiefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yen-Ju Chen wrote: This is the current implementation of makeKeyAndOrderFront: - (void) makeKeyAndOrderFront: (id)sender { [self orderFront: sender]; [self makeKeyWindow]; /* * OPENSTEP makes a window the main

Re: Fix for window flicks when getting focused

2007-09-07 Thread Fred Kiefer
Yen-Ju Chen wrote: This is the current implementation of makeKeyAndOrderFront: - (void) makeKeyAndOrderFront: (id)sender { [self orderFront: sender]; [self makeKeyWindow]; /* * OPENSTEP makes a window the main window when it makes it the key window. * So we do the same

Re: gui fixes

2007-09-06 Thread Fred Kiefer
Fred Kiefer wrote: Andreas Höschler wrote: I used the following two methods on NSActionCell in my patch. Couls you please check, whether they also result in a loop? - (id)objectValue { if (_control_view) if ([_control_view isKindOfClass: controlClass]) [(NSControl

Re: Fix for window flicks when getting focused

2007-09-05 Thread Fred Kiefer
Yen-Ju Chen wrote: On 9/4/07, Fred Kiefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yen-Ju Chen wrote: This patch tries to fix the GNUstep window flicks when it gets focus. This is the situation I traced: 1) A GNUstep window get focused. 2) [XGServerWindow orderwindow:::] receives NSWindowAbove with otherwin

Re: gui fixes

2007-09-04 Thread Fred Kiefer
Andreas Höschler wrote: Hi all, Until this is properly figured out, I have changed the above method (temporary hack) as follows, since the above caused problems with date formatters. - (void)textDidChange: (NSNotification *)aNotification { NSMutableDictionary *dict; // validate

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