Re: Added MISSING file to libs-gui

[Johannes Brakensiek]

Hi Greg,

thank you for your kind reply and your plans on development! Sounds 
great to me.

On 1 Dec 2019, at 14:03, Gregory Casamento wrote:

> > And yes, currently you have almost no chance to port a current 
> > interface
> > to GNUstep.
>
>
> Not true.  There are a few current apps which are on GNUstep by 
> companies
> which reach thousands of users.

But how do they do it? I meant the user interface (xib/nib files) where 
I only see the way of either develop .gorm and .xib files in parallel or 
to use an old version of Interface Builder (<= Xcode 4) to be able to 
load it using Gorm/GNUstep. Did I miss anything?

> > As a first project I just updated DictionaryReader.app to make it 
> > work
> > on Cocoa. It does, but the implementation/use of NSUInteger is 
> > probably
> > be different for Cocoa and GNUstep as my changes on this class do not
> > work using GNUstep:
> >
> > https://github.com/Letterus/DictionaryReader/commit/368b39fa1bd81bf7482860d6b85a537d235533d8#diff-3dc9afee5b822cb486003ac0d8405667
> I'll take a look at it.
>
> > I’m currently missing the knowledge to figure out what/where the 
> > cause
> > for the issue exactly lays, though.
>
> I'll provide some feedback and or see if I can't fix what's blocking 
> you.

Thank you. Fred already helped me with it and it seemed the first issue 
was that I didn’t change all declarations of int to NSInteger so I did 
not have full 64 bit compatibility (which Xcode/Cocoa somehow tweaked to 
make it work, but GNUstep did not).

The second apparently was that one of the .gorm files was broken 
regarding the colors which are to be set by the themes. I refreshed the 
.gorm file from the .nib file and it works now. I just seems that I have 
to redo it a bit because the .nib file seemed to contain selectors of 
Cocoa AppKit methods which slightly differ compared to the 
implementation of GNUstep (I already mentioned these difficulties in my 
mail before).

> Sorry for being so busy... I would have gotten back to you sooner.

Don’t mind, thank you for your reply nonetheless
Johannes