Re: Plans for change....

[Gregory John Casamento]

Dave,

I have a couple of comments on this, which I've been meaning to say for a while.

In the past people have expressed the opinion that "dynamic layout isn't 
possible in Gorm/Nib files"
or, at least, that it can't be handled within IB/Gorm.  That statement is 
patently untrue.

Gorm contains classes called editors.   The purpose of these classes is to 
manage the views while
they are being edited in the gui.   For example, the "button editor" is what 
allows you to stretch and
modify the button without causing the underlying button to be pressed.   It 
does this by wrapping the 
button in itself as a subview and passing on events to the button instance when 
needed.
 
This concept can be used to the same effect on dynamically resizable views, 
such as those
used in Renaissance.    Additionally, inspectors could be used to tell views, 
like in Renaissance,
whether or not they should care about X/Y coordinates.

As I said in my posting regarding the backend....  we need to focus on one set 
of technologies for 
each problem.  

All of the above being said, a significant amount of Renaissance technology can 
be used to create
classes which will work in the "traditional" Gorm/IB gui editors.   I, 
personally, have not had the time 
to do this, but it can be done.

Later, GJC
--
Gregory Casamento
## GNUstep Chief Maintainer

----- Original Message ----
From: David Wetzel <address@hidden>
To: Gregory John Casamento <address@hidden>
Cc: GNUstep Developers <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 4:19:45 AM
Subject: Re: Plans for change....

> All,
> 
> I've written up a short list of things that I want GNUstep to accomplish
> in the year to come:
> 
> As Chief maintainer, it is up to me to determine the
> direction of the project.

To me, that sounds very reasonable. Themes are very important. Dynamic 
layout/sizing like Renaissance 
does is also very important.
I see no real reason to use hardcoded Y/X values like done in NIB files.

Dave

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