Re: how to load .gmodel file?

[Gregory Casamento]

See below...
--- Naomaru Itoi <nitoi@activcard.com> wrote:
> Hello,  
> 
> Great job in the project ... Thanks. 
> 
> I am trying to port a program written with Cocoa on MacOSX (really simple
> program ... actually the CurrencyConverter sample) to GNUstep on Solaris.  I
> am trying to convert MainMenu.nib directory (and three .nib files in it)
> with nib2gmodel, but am not successful yet. 
> 
> When I run nib2gmodel on MainMenu.nib directory, it succeeds to generate a
> file, which is a XML file and does not look like a .gmodel file (.gmodel
> files I find in GNUstep packages aren't XML files).

It is a .gmodel file.   The gmodel files in the GNUstep directories are in
.plist format.  GNUstep can handle either .plist or XML format.
  
> When I run nib2gmodel on MainMenu.nib/classes.nib, I get "An uncaught
> exception was raised.  Cannot load 2.x-style .nib files."  And it doesn't
> generate any .gmodel files. 
> 
> Hence the questions. 
> 
> - Is my nib2gmodel is doing what it's supposed to do?  Or do I have
> installation/configuration problem?
> - Is nib2gmodel-0.8.0 self-contained?  Or do I need to install libraries
> like gnustep-core, gnuste-gui, etc.?  When I installed nib2gmodel on MacOS
> X, it didn't complain about library dependencies, so I didn't install
> anything other than itself. 
> - Should I run nib2gmodel on the directory (MainMenu.nib), or the file
> (MainMenu.nib/classes.nib)?

You MUST run it against the MainMenu.nib directory.  The nib2gmodel program
uses MOSX's nib loading methods to read the .nib and expects to be given the
directory name.

> - Am I missing something else? 

Gorm.app, the InterfaceBuilder clone, is fully functional now and you should be
able to use it to create the gui. :)

> I will greatly appreciate any help and advice. 
> 
> Thank you. 
> 
> --
> Concentration ... Naomaru Itoi 

Later, GJC

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Gregory John Casamento
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