.gmodel ?

[Marcus Müller]

Hi,

last night I tried to port WordNet.app (http://www.mulle-
kybernetik.com/software/WordNet) to GNUstep. It's becoming sort of 
popular recently (although it's out for a couple of years now) and used 
to run on OPENSTEP, Rhapsody and Mac OS X. As always it was pretty 
simple to write the GNUmakefile's (thanks Nicola - the makefiles are 
really great!). One thing which stopped the porting, however, was some 
confusion about the interface files. I knew that there's this nib2gmodel 
tool which looked perfect in my case to get the conversion done with 
almost no effort. However, my application refused to load the .gmodel 
files - the error message (sorry, don't have it here right now) was 
something like that the .gmodel format couldn't be validated, with a '^' 
character pointing at the end of <plist version="0.9">. I have no clue 
what that means.

I then chose to draw the models manually using Gorm.app, but - after 
having set the File's Owner to a custom class - was unable to open the 
inspector after re-opening that .gorm file. The error message was 
something like 'NSDictionary does not respond to length' or something. 
Is this a known issue? The .gorm file will load in my application, but 
none of the connections are actually being set up (probably because 
there's a problem with the File's Owner, so the connection cannot be 
made).

Has anybody successfully ported an application consisting of more than 
one .nib's (just like WordNet.app) to GNUstep and has any best practices 
to share?

Thanks in advance,

  Marcus


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