Re: DBModeler to Gorm drag&drop problem

[Matt Rice]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Giuseppe Luigi Punzi
<glpunzi@lordzealon.com> wrote:
> I have the same issue on Windows with latest DBModeller, gui and back
> builded.
>

hmm, well I know the version your running should contain the fix, are
you sure that gpbs was started?

> Gregory John Casamento escribió:
>>
>> Lars,
>>
>> There was a bug in drag and drop handling which was recently fixed in
>> DBModeler.  You may want to update everything.
>>
>> Also... there are some issues presently with using GNUstep on GNOME since
>> there are some issues with it's window manager.  I don't know if this is due
>> to non-compliance with the free-desktop standards on their end or something
>> with GNUstep itself...   this needs to be worked on.
>> If you plan on demoing GNUstep you should do it on WindowMaker with the
>> latest from SVN.
>>
>> GC
>> Gregory Casamento -- Principal Consultant - OLC, Inc
>> # GNUstep Chief Maintainer
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *From:* Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de>
>> *To:* Discuss-gnustep GNUstep <discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>
>> *Sent:* Friday, January 30, 2009 9:26:00 PM
>> *Subject:* DBModeler to Gorm drag&drop problem
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am currently in the process of preparing a live-demo of DBModeler, Gorm
>> and ProjectCenter for FOSDEM similar to what Matt Rice did in his videos.
>>
>>
>> For that purpose I installed Ubuntu 8.10 inside a SUN VirtualBox VM. My
>> aim doing so is to show how easy it is to start developing with GNUstep. For
>> the same reason I got GNUstep and the dev-tools installed by the services
>> that Ubuntu provides. As you might know this is not the latest and greatest
>> of GNUstep but it works (somewhat).
>>
>>
>> One of the things that don't work seems to be drag and drop from DBModeler
>> to Gorm. I think I got everything needed installed and activated: DBModeler,
>> Gorm, the GDL2.palette. When I drag an entity or an relation from DBModeler
>> into the instances-window (is it called that way?) of Gorm the mouse cursor
>> changes to a small forbidden-sign.
>>
>> When I now try to drop the entity or relationship snaps back into its
>> place in the DBModeler Window. I tried several modifier keys: shift,
>> control, alt (causes the whole window to move), command (shows the menu at
>> the mouse position), nothing worked so far.
>>
>>
>> Am I missing something?
>>
>> What could be the cause for this? Incompatible versions of DBModeler, Gorm
>> and the GDL2.palette (I got some funky version 0.0.0(alpha) of DBModeler of
>> 2006 (or was the info panel not updated), version 1.2.2 (Release) of Gorm of
>> 5th of November 2007 and an unknown version of the GDL2.palette (how do I
>> find out the version here?))?
>>
>> Is it maybe Gnome which interferes with GNUstep here? I also tried Window
>> Maker what didn't help the cause a bit. What else could I try?
>>
>>
>> And my final question: Is there alternative way of getting the GDL2 stuff
>> from DBModeler inside Gorm? Otherwise this would possibly bust my talk since
>> I don't have that much time left to track down that issue.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>    Lars
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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