Re: Missing Classes in GNUstep version of AppKit (gui) as of OS 10.8

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Greg,

I wonder where NSTextTable is, a class which we miss since 10.4 and which would be of high use to bring SWK on GNUstep on par with Cocoa for example.

I never used any of these classes, some seem very specific. THere is no use for us to have a QuickDraw view, we don't support QuickDraw, it would fall in to the "DPS" category.

Some classes we miss since long: for example, NSDatePicker doesn't seem a class I can't live without, but it exists since 10.4 :)

Did you do the comparison with a script or manually? I'd like to know how we are against 10.3/10.4

Method comparison is of course more interesting. Anyway, it is a start!

Thanks,
 Riccardo

On 05/06/13 05:49, Gregory Casamento wrote:

Good evening...

I've done a simple analysis to see what is currently missing in GNUstep GUI vs. OS 10.8 AppKit.  Here is the list of classes which we currently are lacking.  My analysis doesn't not include a list of methods which are not implemented on classes which we currently do have, but I will get there.  I simply wanted to give us an idea of where we are.  Here is the list of classes which are missing in GNUstep:

NSATSTypesetter

NSAnimationContext

NSCIImageRep

NSDatePicker

NSDatePickerCell

NSDictionaryController

NSDockTile

NSDraggingImageComponent

NSDraggingItem

NSDraggingSession

NSFontCollection

NSGlyphInfo

NSLayoutConstraint

NSMutableFontCollection

NSOpenGLLayer

NSOpenGLPixelBuffer

NSPDFImageRep

NSPICTImageRep

NSPageController

NSPasteboardItem

NSPathCell

NSPathComponentCell

NSPathControl

NSPersistentDocument

NSPredicateEditor

NSPredicateEditorRowTemplate

NSQuickDrawView

NSRuleEditor

NSRunningApplication

NSSharingService

NSSharingServicePicker

NSSimpleHorizontalTypesetter

NSSpeechRecognizer

NSStatusBar

NSStatusItem

NSTableCellView

NSTableRowView

NSTextAlternatives

NSTextFinder

NSTextInputContext

NSTouch

NSTrackingArea

NSTreeNode

NSTypesetter

As an aside, since some might wonder, we are currently missing the following classes from AppKit in OPENSTEP 4.2:

Listener --  NeXTSTEP compatibility class...

NSCStringText -- NeXTSTEP compatibility class...

NSDPSContext -- DPS is not implemented

NSDPSServerContext -- DPS is not implemented.

Speaker -- NeXTSTEP compatibility class...

These are irrelevant since they are either NeXTSTEP specific or they pertain only to DPS which we don't care about.

I will do the same analysis for Foundation/base.  Once that's done I will list the methods which are missing on existing classes in both libraries vs OS 10.8.