Good to hear.

Fred

On the road

Am 10.06.2014 um 01:13 schrieb Gregory Casamento <greg.casame...@gmail.com>:

> None of those strings should require any gorm rebuilds.
> 
> GC
> 
> 
>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Fred Kiefer <fredkie...@gmx.de> wrote:
>> While chasing after a bug that Riccardo reported (The fix was intended
>> as a birthday present, but now I am too late), I noticed that many of
>> the strings used in the GUI file externs.m are different from their
>> Cocoa counterparts. This in itself is no big deal as we normally refer
>> to them via their names, which are the same. But when exchanging a NIB
>> file between these two systems the actual values get used.
>> The wrong values come mostly from a time when no GNUstep developer had
>> access to a Next or later Apple machine to test the actual value of
>> constants.
>> 
>> To prevent future problem I went through most of the file and wrote some
>> simple code to report the actual values on Cocoa. I did this for about
>> 140 strings from this file and found plenty of differences, which I
>> corrected. The big problem now is that when you switch to the new GUI
>> code you will not only need to recompile all your GNUstep applications
>> and tools, in addition you may also need to regenerate all Gorm files
>> that include any of these strings. I am not sure whether there are any
>> at all, but potentially there could be some.
>> 
>> As usual with bulk changes like this, I might have overlooked a few
>> cases and/or make mistakes in the changed I did. Please feel free to
>> check and improve them.
>> 
>> Sorry for the inconvenience,
>> Fred
>> 
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