FYI and a few questions...

2007-07-27 Thread Stefan Bidigaray
So I finally broke down and subscribed to gnustep-dev! I recently (Wednesday) started working on an implementation of Apple's ScreenSaver framework so that I can get more acquainted with GNUstep programming. I figured this framework would be fairly easy to do, which it is, for most part. I

Re: FYI and a few questions...

2007-07-27 Thread Adam Fedor
On Jul 27, 2007, at 9:36 AM, Fred Kiefer wrote: Stefan Bidigaray wrote: 4) Lastly, I'll need a lot of help creating ScreenSaverDefaults, but only later. I've check NSUserDefaults' code and I'm more confused now than I was when I started out. I figured for this, the best thing would be

Re: FYI and a few questions...

2007-07-27 Thread Adam Fedor
On Jul 27, 2007, at 6:46 AM, Stefan Bidigaray wrote: 1) I still haven't figured out how I'm going to count how many minutes it's been since the last even, and much less how to even find out if events have happened. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this? 2) I also have no idea

Re: FYI and a few questions...

2007-07-27 Thread Stefan Bidigaray
On 7/27/07, Adam Fedor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are going to write a screen saver, you will need to get support from the window system (X11, if you're just targeting that). The GNUstep framework won't help you with system-wide event handling. I'd recommend looking at other

Re: FYI and a few questions...

2007-07-27 Thread Yen-Ju Chen
On 7/27/07, Stefan Bidigaray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I finally broke down and subscribed to gnustep-dev! I recently (Wednesday) started working on an implementation of Apple's ScreenSaver framework so that I can get more acquainted with GNUstep programming. I figured this framework would

Re: FYI and a few questions...

2007-07-27 Thread Fred Kiefer
Stefan Bidigaray wrote: My questions: 1) I still haven't figured out how I'm going to count how many minutes it's been since the last even, and much less how to even find out if events have happened. Does anyone have any ideas on how to do this? This is easy. If your tool already uses an

Re: FYI and a few questions...

2007-07-27 Thread Riccardo
Hi, On 2007-07-27 14:46:06 +0200 Stefan Bidigaray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I finally broke down and subscribed to gnustep-dev! I recently (Wednesday) started working on an implementation of Apple's ScreenSaver framework so that I can get more acquainted with GNUstep programming. I

Re: FYI and a few questions...

2007-07-27 Thread Gregory John Casamento
: Re: FYI and a few questions... Hi, On 2007-07-27 14:46:06 +0200 Stefan Bidigaray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I finally broke down and subscribed to gnustep-dev! I recently (Wednesday) started working on an implementation of Apple's ScreenSaver framework so that I can get more acquainted

Re: FYI and a few questions...

2007-07-27 Thread Stefan Bidigaray
On 7/27/07, Gregory John Casamento [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) Also, please stay away from names such as gs* as such things are trite and overused. Well, I chose gssaver for a lack of better, and shorter, description. The only other idea I had was gscreensaver, note the s after the g isn't