Re: My first app

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 17 Mar 2010, at 13:26, Vincent Richomme wrote:

>>> 
>>>> Hourray!
>>>> 
>>>> Finally I had an issue with my fontconfig package and once I had fixed
>> it
>>>> I could see Project center.
>>>> So now I will try to write a shell script to simplify compilation
>>>> of GNUstep on msys/mingw-NG.
>>>> Next step: see if cairo backend can be used on windows.
>>> 
>>> I don't think people have done that ... so it would be great if you
>> could
>>> get it working.
>>> 
>>> Thanks very much for all the time/work you've put in getting GNUstep
>>> ported to mingw64
>> 
>> Actually cairo works fine or should I say work as bad as winlib.
>> Indeed with the two backends, my windows are all black, there is no
>> widgets inside.
> 
> When I enter the command you gave me to specify backend :
> defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSBackend cairo
> 
> I have the following message :
> 
> $ defaults write NSGlobalDomain GSBackend cairo
> 2010-03-17 14:25:00.642 defaults[3392] Defaults path 'C:/GNUstep/Defaults'
> did not exist - created it
> 2010-03-17 14:25:00.658 defaults[3392] Creating empty user defaults
> database
> 
> So maybe it would be interesting to know how defaults retrieve this value
> and how to change it.


You can set/retrieve defaults using the 'defaults' command (try 'defaults 
--help')

The user defaults API is documented at 
http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/Developer/Base/Reference/index.html

The actual storage mechanism for defaults is really supposed to be hidden ... 
but if you have multiple GNUstep systems installed on a single machine, you may 
want each system to have a separate configuration and the GNUstep configuration 
file is what's used to define where everything else (apart from that file) is 
found.
Look at 
http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/Developer/Base/Reference/index.html
 in the section header 'GNUstep Configuration File' and at the 
GNUSTEP_USER_DEFAULTS_DIR setting in particular.
See also that GNUSTEP_CONFIG_FILE environment variable.