Authors
- Adam Fedor (
fedor@gnu.org)
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Version: $Revision: 1.24 $
Date: $Date: 2007/01/27 21:40:20 $
Copyright: (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
The release notes include descriptions of API changes, behavior
changes and other information that might help developers and users
migrate to using a newer version of the library.
- Keyed Encoding/Archiving
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Support for keyed encoding has been added to all gui classes.
- Nib loading
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Nib loading has been implemented. For the most part, nibs
are (or should be) compatible between GNUstep and Mac OS X.
- Color schemes and Themes
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Better support for color schemes and themes has been added. In
the near future theming should be integrated into gui itself.
- RTFD
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Loading and writting of RTFD format was implemented.
- Horizontal menus
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Horizontal (mac)-style menus should now work. Horizontal
menus are activated by setting the 'NSMenuInterfaceStyle' user
default to 'NSMacintoshInterfaceStyle'.
- Active applications
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Better support for tracking active applications was
added. Normally a workspace manager should handle this,
but the GUI library can handle it on its own if it is not
handled any other way.
- Power Off
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The notification center posts a power off notification before
sending a terminate: method sent from another app on the assumption
that the terminate: is from a session manager.
- Sound library
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GNUstep now uses v19 of portaudio for the sound daemon. Version
v19 hasn't been officially released, but it is still used in
several distributions (SuSE, etc) as v18 is very old.
The interface version of the gui library has changed in
this release. Applications, libraries and tools that
wish to use this new version must be recompiled
(otherwise, they'll use the older version of the library).
- Nib window autopositioning
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Nib loading has been improved to handle auto-positioning
of windows.
- NSFont
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An ivar was added to NSFont to cache flipped fonts.
- NSApplication
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An ivar was added to track application launch.
- Keyed Encoding
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Work was done in many classes to support keyed
encoding. It may not be fully implemented in every class, however.
- Backend Versioning
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The GUI library now looks for the backend bundle with the
corrent interface version. Thus there should not be any
problems with the GUI using the wrong backend.
- NSColor colors
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Added new control colors and methods from 10.3 version of Cocoa.
- NSFont methods
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Added new font methods from 10.3 version of Cocoa
- NSApplication -runModalSession
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Behavior of this method was changed. In particular it deviates
from Cocoa documentation. See the GNUstep GUI documentation for
specifics.
- Runtime version discovery of library
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A developer can discover the version of the gui library
that is loaded using the NSBundle methods
[[NSBundle
bundleForLibrary: @"gnustep-gui"] infoDictionary]
and retrieving the GSBundleVersion key.
- Interface version change
-
The interface version of the gui library has changed in
this release.
There is no single reason for this change. Arguably, it
should have been done long ago. In the future the
interface version will only change with releases that
have a new minor version number (that's the second number in the
release number). Applications, libraries and tools that
wish to use this new version must be recompiled
(otherwise, they'll use the older version of the library).
- PPD's removed
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All the PPD's have been removed from the gui library
into a separate package (gnustep-ppd). There still
exists a single Generic Postscript Printer PPD which
should work in many cases for printing using the
standard lpr interface. In the future, a
CUPS interface should be available that provides
all the necessary printer information automatically. If
you still want use of the PPD's, you must install the
gnustep-ppd package, although this is not required for
use of gnustep-gui.
- Printing framework
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The printing framework was generalized to allow for
various types of native printing systems. The lpr
system is the only complete one, although CUPS printing
is in the works. As such, the printing classes were
revamped to handle this, and the actual system-specific
code is loaded from a bundle.
- NSScroller, NSScrollView class size change
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A new ivar was added to the NSScroller and NSScrollView classes.
- Spell checker daemon reimplemented using libaspell
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If the optional library libaspell is found, the spell checker
will use it (otherwise spell checking will not work).
- New NSComboBox implementation
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NSComboBox and related classes have been re-implemented
and documented.
- NSToolbar code redone
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A lot of changes where made to the NSToolbar class to
make it more functional.
- Binary Incompatibilities
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New ivars were added NSTableView, NSView,
NSSavePanel. Applications that use this class and
subclasses (e.g. NSOutlineView) may need to be
recompiled to work properly.