Re: Nib compatibility branch merged to baseline.

[Peter Cooper]

Hello

> Please check out the latest SVN and take a look.   I also checked in 
> the 
> changes to Gorm and to gormtest, which now includes nibs as well as 
> the 
> normal gorm files to test out loading.

I've got to say, gormtest is visually impressive - it's amazing to see 
all those nibs come up in the interface. I don't think I ever expected 
this to be done.

It's one of the key changes to allow easy porting from OS X to other 
platforms, and therefore a key to ongoing use of GNUstep and therefore 
a positive step to ensure the inevitable victory of software libre ;-)

> The changes to Gorm.app consist only of those necessary to make it 
> compile 
> with the changes.  I am working on the necessary modifications to 
> Gorm.app 
> and to gui to allow for writing nibs as well.  This is "phase 2" of 
> this 
> effort.

I was looking at the phase 2 changes required - it looks like only a 
little code will be required to open nibs, mainly in GormDocument.m (I 
think, mainly supporting nib bundles from the document open dialog and 
hooking into the nibcompatibility class for deserialisation, somewhat 
like the code for gorms, yes?). Would there be other extensive changes 
required to be able to read nibs and save them as gorms?

This is really really great!

Peter