On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 20:39 +0100, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > First of all: great work! It would be absolutely fantastic to have some > library > of documents (electronic or printed, doesn't matter) of pure GNUstep > knowledge. > This is one of the important points where a hobby project changes into a > serious > development environment. > > A remarks on the document (I haven't read all...) >
First all, thanks for the spelling corrections. Time has been limited, with starting a new job and all, so I don't get vast amounts of time to write this. > - typo on page 11 (logical page 8), section 4.2 (Loading and Instantiaing > Interface Files): > > id MyOwner; > NSNib* myNib; > > should have the first letter of 'MyOwner' lowercase, shouldn't it? > > - Again section 4.2: before all playing with NSNib I would suggest adding a > section explaining the simple use of -[NSBundle loadNibNamed:owner:] - I > prefer > this method before using NSNib, as it avoids having to create all sorts of > instance variables and basically performs the same work, but with less code. > Also, isn't NSNib by any chance an addition of Apple to OpenStep? Because I > don't remember seeing it in the old OpenStep spec. My concern is not following OpenStep nor Cocoa, but what exists in GNUstep. Whether or not it exists in the OpenStep spec I couldn't care less about. I'll have to check whether it's in OpenStep, though. > - Chapter 6 "The view concept": shouldn't capitalization in English be "The > View > Concept"? Also, the third word in the first sentence shouldn't read > "applications" instead (as 'multiple' applicationS)? Maybe, but I don't think it's necessary. > - Chapter 6, 3. paragraph, 3. sentence doesn't have a space before the initial > word 'NSRect'. Also, I would instead write here 'An NSRect consists of an > NSPoint and an NSSize field,...'. > > - Chapter 6, 3. paragraph: "a mathematical coordinate system". To be precise, > it's a Catersian coordinate system. But that's just a tiny detail. Yep, will fix. > - Chapter 6: add details about how to do the things which other graphical > systems don't usually have, like origin translation, coordinate system > transformations (e.g. make the view and all drawing in it appear horizontally > squashed), rotation, view flipping etc. Thanks, I'll try and write a chapter on that, and integrate it when I figure it out later. > - Chpater 7: the last word of the first sentece should read "views", shouldn't > it? Anyone got any other ideas on what's good for content? Again, even small contributions would be great. Especially something structural, like prototyped ideas. Thanks Chris _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
