RE: Windows Installer on OSNews

2007-12-26 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf Am 26.12.2007 um 17:04 schrieb Adam Fedor: On Dec 26, 2007, at 3:59 AM, Markus Hitter wrote: Going to GNUsteps web site http://www.gnustep.org/experience/ Windows.html, I think this could be phrased better. Thanks. I made some updates. Really? Here it

RE: Memory usage of GNUstep processes

2007-12-15 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
After free() is executed, this space is made available for further allocation by the application, though not returned to the system. Memory is returned to the system only upon termination of the application. Thanks for this info!!! That is general unix behaviour or do Solaris, MacOSX,

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

2007-11-15 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Fried Kiefer wrote: Nicolas Roard wrote: Yes, file chooser should use the native one. I don't agree here. Using native file chooser or other common dialog panels will be break the look and feel of a GNUstep application. I agree with Fred here. I personally have no problem with non-native

RE: Some experience of a beginner

2007-09-24 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Hi ZuLuu, After a small exploring, I found GNUstep web site and I liked the atmospher and the things written in it. In my humble opinion you made a right choice. This is the same choice I made some time ago and forced myself to start with Objective C. I think it provides excellent balance

RE: New ProjectCenter Icons

2007-09-13 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: I would prefer ... more small apps tailored to their specific jobs, and integrating and integrating with each other. Technically, I think that well defined interfaces between apps using DO/notifications are no harder to program than well defined interfaces

RE: Why dose art not use fontconfig?

2007-08-20 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Gregory John Casamento wrote: Although art is an excellent backend, the library it's based on, libart, is currently unmaintained, and cairo is actively maintained and more Postscript like.Xlib renders poorly, but is fast on very slow systems. [...] Allow me to rephrase... xlib renders

RE: The future of GNUstep (was: Open URL in NSWorkspace)

2007-08-08 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
From: Nicolas Roard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - what do we really gain from compatibility? But there's also apps like Vienna or Sketch we ported straight from OSX to GNUstep/etoile, apps that fabien ported too (MPlayer, etc), and I forget others. And there's as usual all the apps that

RE: The future of GNUstep (was: Open URL in NSWorkspace)

2007-08-07 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 07.08.2007 um 03:22 schrieb Vaisburd, Haim: For this, of course, we should not abandon X windows like Apple did. FYI: Neither NeXT nor Apple did ever use X as their windowing system. You'd better get informed before you starting

RE: The future of GNUstep (was: Open URL in NSWorkspace)

2007-08-06 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Hi, Sorry for the delay in response - I was travelling this weekend. From: Richard Frith-Macdonald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In my mind, people who focus on Mac OSX compatibility [...] do not expect independent development. I think this just shows that your mind is a long way out of touch

RE: Open URL in NSWorkspace

2007-08-03 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Fred Kiefer wrote: But why should we open up URLs with a web browser? An URL just specifies how to get to a specific set of data, the data itself should then be treated just like any other file of that type. Yes, agreed here. If it is HTML then it should be passed on to a web browser, but

The future of GNUstep (was: Open URL in NSWorkspace)

2007-08-03 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Riccardo wrote: Fabien: On Fri, August 3, 2007 10:00 am, Fred Kiefer wrote: As currently I am almost alone working on GNUstep gui (and back for that matter), it will take some time for these things to happen. And GNustep is still running after Cocoa. With no short term objectives.

RE: Non-root user problem on Solaris

2007-08-02 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Can anybody confirm this and/or has a clue what is going wrong here? Only confirming that something does work on Solaris: I managed to install current GNUstep release on SPARC Solaris 10 and got a test application to work. All with just one backend - arts. I do not have root access to these

RE: Linking setup with gnustep-make 2.0.1 on Solaris

2007-06-12 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Fabien Groffen We [gentoo] use some experimental -rpath (-R) support for Linux Fabien Groffen (and Solaris), which seems to work fine so far, thereby eliminating the Fabien Groffen dreaded LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable. Fabien Groffen I'm not sure why the GNUstep developers chose for this approach.

Obscure rotation problem in base-1.14/gui-0.12

2007-06-06 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Hi, I installed newest packages at last, after that tested PhotoClip application. Apparently, the rotation is broken in the latest libraries (I tested only art backend). I attach the application that rotate an image +90 degrees (that is, counterclockwise) and displays it. The program is

RE: Obscure rotation problem in base-1.14/gui-0.12

2007-06-06 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Fred Kiefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was able to track down the problem into the image.m file of the art backend. Thanks a lot for prompt response! I spent the whole day yesterday getting progressively gloomier as I could not understand what went wrong or what the difference was.

RE: Problems with some images...

2007-05-29 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Stefan Bidigaray wrote: The problem is that PhotoClip doesn't have a PhotoClipInfo.plist, which is where this stuff needs to be. I attached the file! Thank you, got it. [copying the stripped version for the mail list sake] { ApplicationName = PhotoClip; NSIcon = PhotoClip.tiff;

[Q] NSFileHandle -readDataOfLength behaviour

2007-04-12 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Hi, While working on my byte stream functions and trying to base them on NSFileHandle instead of NSStreams I discovered a strange feature of [NSFileHandle -readDataOfLength:] implementation in GNUstep. I was trying to determine whether this method blocks until it reads the requested number of

RE: Missing interface that connects NSCoder to NSStream ?

2007-03-14 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
On 14 Mar 2007, at 07:31, Helge Hess wrote: On Mar 14, 2007, at 01:57, Vaisburd, Haim wrote: Does OPENSTEP/Cocoa offer better mechanism that works like C++ stream, i.e. let you disregard the source of data and concentrate on formatting? The official way prior NS*Stream was to assemble

RE: Missing interface that connects NSCoder to NSStream ?

2007-03-14 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
That was fast! :-) Helge Hess wrote: We don't need another thread for that since its indeed obvious. You made it :) Finally I also found the JSON-RPC 1.1 specification: http://json-rpc.org/wd/JSON-RPC-1-1-WD-20060807.html#Overview Finally I looked there too... Before that I was mainly

RE: Missing interface that connects NSCoder to NSStream ?

2007-03-13 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Helge, Thanks a lot for prompt response. Helge Hess wrote: OpenStep didn't even include streams. NS*Stream only got added in MacOS 10.3 or 10.4. This is why most people wrote their own streaming library, eg ours can be found here:

RE: Missing interface that connects NSCoder to NSStream ?

2007-03-13 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Helge, I missed one phrase in your previous mail: Notably streaming only makes sense if you are really exchanging a LOT of data (rather unlikely for typical JSON applications). I wanted to use NS*Streams because they seemed like a proper way to isolate the input/output from the media (memory

Missing interface that connects NSCoder to NSStream ?

2007-03-12 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Hi list, I'm trying to use JSON-RPC protocol (http://json-rpc.org/wiki/specification) for client-server communication. JSON (JavaScript Object Notation, http://json.org) is not really related to JavaScript, it is indeed a version of ACSII encoding for simplified property lists (only strings,

RE: TIFFRpresentation problem

2007-03-07 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Fred Kiefer wrote: Half Activist wrote: i wrote a little application, that locks focus on an NSImage, draws to it, then unlock the focus. I then try to get the TIFFRepresentation data, but it always returns nil. This currently is a limitation of GNUstep. I'm among the ones

RE: The importance of civil communication on the list (was Re:Fucked up gnustep-make)

2007-02-15 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Jeremy Tregunna wrote: Jeff Teunissen wrote: The best way to destroy a project is to make it seem like a job. +1 to this. You've got another ++ here [ although it might indicate that we have bad jobs ;-( ]. As for gnustep-make - Nicola, we like your work. It's natural to make mistakes

RE: Embedded GNUstep - new rumours about embedded MacOS X and callfor support [OT]

2007-01-11 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Helge Hess wrote: On Jan 11, 2007, at 08:54, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: Well, it [Nokia N800] is mainly lacking to be a phone whih makes it quite useless... I consider the UMTS-phone + N800 combo almost perfect. [...] The nice thing about the N800 is the form factor (touch display)

RE: Plans for change slashdot submission

2006-12-21 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my slashdot submission regarding Gregory's announcement: http://heronsperch.blogspot.com/2006/12/plans-for-change.html I think it's important document. Shall we post it in this list? Shall we discuss it in this list? --Tima

RE: Scrollbars.

2006-11-16 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Marc Brünink wrote: Chris Vetter wrote: or maybe better (IMHO) use it's own User Default, If we want good support of themes, this should get its own default. But this is a fundamental decision. Do you want lots of defaults or do you want to be spare. The first case clutters up the code

RE: command line tools and $PATH

2006-11-13 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
On Behalf Of Stefan Bidigaray Also, generally . is not in anyone's PATH! I've seen very few distributions where this is true and is regarded to be generally unsafe... I'd say it's a prejudice. I can imagine bad things happening if you are root, but what trouble can happen for a regular

RE: close application from title bar control - close

2006-09-13 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: On 13 Sep 2006, at 12:14, pradip patel wrote: How can I close whole application from title bar controls- close button Applications are not supposed to terminate when the window closes ... The easiest way is probably to implement the method - (BOOL)

RE: Fwd: Advertisement for gnustep

2006-09-13 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Yavor Doganov wrote: contributions from developers that concentrate on powerful and reliable software (instead of freedom) are also fine, but such people usually don't browse gnu.org regularly Ideology sucks -- Linus Torvalds. (and me too) Sorry for the noise, people, could not resist.

RE: Etoile on Solaris

2006-08-24 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
typedef is no strict C and does not seem to be supported by gcc without further ado. You haven't had this problem? Any ideas? You meant typeof. I managed to compile GNUstep on Solaris 10, but SPARC and 32 bits. I used latest available gcc (4.1.1), which I also compiled from scratch. I would

RE: FW: FW: FW: installation problem

2006-06-13 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
main.m it's enough to say #import Foundation/Foundation.h --Tima -Original Message- From: pradip patel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 10:20 PM To: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org; Vaisburd, Haim Subject: Re: FW: FW: FW: installation problem HI i have also GNUstepBase

Key events newbie questions

2006-05-18 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Hi everybody, I'm trying to attach reasonable keys to actions in my app. Two questions so far: 1. Is it possible to assign Enter, Escape, PageUp, PageDown, Home, End buttons as key equivalents for menu items and make them work without Alt modifier? 2. I've learned about keyboard action

RE: The GNUstep code challenge.

2006-05-15 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Nicolas Roard wrote: On 5/16/06, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could a port of this: http://seashore.sourceforge.net/ be it [a killer app] ? the screenshot shows a clear and uncluttered interface: Indeed. Sorry to disagree with you both. This image editor closely

RE: A question about categories

2006-05-08 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Marc Brünink wrote: Is there any way to call the original method within the implementation of my override, in this case the original [NSBitmapImageRep-destroy] ? Or not simply anyway. What you can do is put your new implementation in a loadable bundle, then get the method implementation

A question about categories

2006-05-05 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Hi, I would like to override a method of an existing class. One way is to create a category and define a method with the same name, e.g. @interface NSBitmapImageRep (MyCategory) - destroy; @end Is there any way to call the original method within the implementation of my override, in this case

RE: [Q] '_OBJC_INSTANCE_0' defined but not used

2006-05-04 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
From: Quentin Mathé [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Le 4 mai 06 à 23:09, Vaisburd, Haim a écrit : GSCategories.m:50: warning: '_OBJC_INSTANCE_0' defined but not used [...] I don't know but I encountered the same issue when compiling -base on Mac OS X 10.4.6 with FSF GCC 4.1. Andrew Pinksi

[Q] Building gnustep-base on Solaris 64bit - ffcall problems

2006-04-27 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Hi, Trying to fix some previously posted error I'm recompiling new gcc (gcc-4.1.0) and was going to replace libffi that comes with gcc to ffcall-1.10. I cannot compile ffcall-1.10 though. avcall crashes with illegal operands like this: cd avcall; make all gcc -m64 -mcpu=v9 -E `if test false =

[Q] Building gnustep-base on Solaris 64bit

2006-04-23 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Hi everybody, I managed to compile gnustep-base-0.12.1 on Solaris 2.8 in 64 bit mode (-mcpu=v9). I got only 2 types of warnings, -Wcast-align and -Wchar-subscripts, seem harmless on this architecture. However, every program crashes with the following message: defaults ld.so.1: defaults: fatal:

RE: Start GNUstep.sh as early as possible in Xwindow session

2006-04-17 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Charles Philip Chan wrote: Do you know of any shell other than t/csh that does not read ~/.profile? bash does not read ~/.profile if it finds ~/.bash_profile Just a note: bash (and, maybe, some other popular shells) distinguishes between 1. interactive login shell 2. interactive, but not login

RE: Start GNUstep.sh as early as possible in Xwindow session

2006-04-17 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Yen-Ju Chen wrote: As a regular user, I cannot even understand why there is a .bash_profile, .bash_rc and .profile. As a GNUstep developer, you can easily understand it after you read INVOCATION section in the manual page for bash :) My only advise is to stick with just one shell (bash is ok),

RE: [Q] GNUstep Solaris 64 bit configuration

2006-03-30 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Adam Fedor wrote: Linking subproject Additions ... path-to-ld/ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format elf64-sparc (shared_obj/GSCategories.o) to format elf32-sparc (./shared_obj/subproject.o) is not supported collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Can you show the output

[Q] GNUstep Solaris 64 bit configuration

2006-03-28 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Hi, I'm trying to build latest GNUstep (startup-0.15.0) on Solaris 2.8 in 64 bit mode. The following configuration of gnustep-base CC=gcc -m64 -mcpu=v9 CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS ./configure leads to the following problem: Linking subproject Additions ... path-to-ld/ld: Relocatable linking with

RE: [Q] GNUstep Solaris 64 bit compilation

2006-03-21 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Adam Fedor wrote: I'd bet that you need to use -Rpath or something similar. Thank you for your help! I think this is more of a question for a gcc list Yes. I hoped that someone on gnustep list has been through this, as I remember people reported issues with GNUstep on Solaris, and they have

[Q] GNUstep Solaris 64 bit compilation

2006-03-20 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Hello everybody, I'm trying to compile GNUstep under Solaris 2.8, 64 bit processor and I want to make 64-bit system. I have compiled gcc (4.0.0) myself - it seemed fine, but now it does not want to link with the libraries for proper architecture. The configuration command (I removed -I and -L

FW: [Fwd: Bug in NSAffineTransform]

2006-02-24 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Hello list, It seems I have a problem when sending to the list from home: a test message propagated, but the real one - no. Sorry if you'll get a duplicate. After a long break I upgraded to latest gnustep release (gui-0.10.2) and the image rotation in PhotoClip stopped working. I figured out

ANN: PhotoClip 0.2.3

2005-09-11 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Hello everybody, After one and a half year of silence I'm happy to tell that this project is still alive. I have released the version 0.2.3 of PhotoClip. PhotoClip is a simple image viewer and editor designed mostly for digital camera pictures. I noticed that all my picture editing is rediced

RE: GNUstep on the rise!

2005-08-04 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Cris Vetter wrote: [...] [ GNUstep separate OS ] AFAIK, xMach is dead :-( So does anyone know how far Hurd is with respect to usability? [...] Sorry, I deleted the essential part of Cris' letter that I'm going to reply. I guess when Chris was talking exclusive GNUstep experience he meant

Cropping rectangle from an image

2005-07-22 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Hi everybody, After a long while I'm ready to return to this topic. I would like to crop a reclangle from an existing image and save it to a file. This is the code I use, it works only partially. @implementation NSImage (PhotoClip) // category - (NSImage *) imageFromRect: (NSRect) rect

RE: Known MacOS programmer about WO/EOF

2005-04-01 Thread Vaisburd, Haim
Markus Hitter wrote: a developer doesn't really care how many other apps there are. (S)he needs a powerful, easy to handle API (which GNUstep already has), stability and a quick way to get started. And completeness, completeness :-) As has been mentioned earlier here, we do not have a