Re: higher-fidelity nib2gmodel?

[Gregory John Casamento]

Jonathan,

--- Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch <address@hidden> wrote:

> Gregory John Casamento, address@hidden, wrote:
> >The gmodel import feature of Gorm is still experimental.  Could you send 
> >me the
> >.nib you had this trouble with?  Also, would it be possible to get one of
> the
> >in which the table/outline view was skipped?
> 
> Perhaps. It's a commercial app that I work on, so it's not my project to 
> toss you pieces of. I probably can reproduce it, however.

Please email me the .gmodel you create from this, if you can.

> >> Is nib2gmodel the current best way to move .nibs over? Perhaps Gorm or 
> >> another tool could deal with 10.2's text-archive .nib format?
> >
> >Work on this is ongoing.   I (and others) am currently working on making
> >GNUstep capable of reading the keyed nibs.
> 
> How far along is this? What needs to be done to make this work? I may be 
> able to throw in cycles here.

There's still quite a bit of work to be done here.   Many of the GNUstep
classes now have the necessary logic to read the keyed nibs, but many still
don't.  Also it's necessary to determine, from looking at the xml output for an
object of each class to reverse engineer the meaning of some of the flags.

> | Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch   http://rentzsch.com
> | Red Shed Software           http://redshed.net
> |     "better" necessarily means "different"

GJC

Gregory John Casamento 
-- CEO/President Open Logic Corp. (A MD Corp.)
## Maintainer of Gorm (IB Equiv.) for GNUstep.