Re: Working on XIB document support

[David Chisnall]

Hi Fred,

I have some fairly recent .xibs in this project, which aims to be an 
OmniOutliner 3 clone (because I hate OmniOutliner 5 and 3 doesn't work 
on recent macOS):

https://github.com/davidchisnall/OpenOutliner

I haven't worked on it for a while (the undo stuff is completely broken 
and needs reworking from scratch - maybe over Christmas I'll play with 
it), but it's good enough for me to use with the OmniOutliner files that 
I have.

It does depend on correct handling of weak properties in the controller 
classes, but hopefully the KVC implementation will just call the 
property accessors and that will just work.

I don't think that the code will work with GNUstep very easily because 
it depends on the view-based NSTableView, which wasn't implemented last 
time I looked.

David

On 09/12/2019 09:46, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> I just want to let you know that I have started to integrate the
> Eggplant code for XIB document loading, that is the newer XIB format,
> into GNUstep gui. Over the weekend I managed to integrate a minimal
> version of the code into a git branch and get it compile with gcc. The
> next step is to clean up the code further and test it with some real XIB
> files. That is why I am writing to you :-)
>
> I am looking for some real live applications where you have modern XIB
> files and would like to reuse these on GNUstep. Preferable without
> custom classes otherwise you will have to provide the source code as well.
>
> Don't expect too much from this effort. I have a week off from work (too
> much holidays left) but there are other competing projects I plan to
> spend time on:
> - Perparring house and garden for the winter
> - Go to the Hans Baldung Grien exhibition in Karlsruhe or spend a day up
> in the Black forest
> - Plenty of reading to catch up with
> - Help a befriended company with their software issues
> - Plus plenty of smaller stuff that needs to be taken care of
>
> Cheers,
> Fred