gnustep on windows
Ok, I've downloaded the patch and worked on merging the changes in CairoContext.m with the latest version (so pdf and ps output would still work) as well as cleaning up a few minor style things. It now compiles, but I get garbage when I try to run Gorm, and the GNUstep test appears to freeze. I can't find obvious errors in my modification, so is there some code somewhere else that's a problem? Here's the modified CairoContext.m: http://www.mediafire.com/?n2s1stkmu9c and here's the result I get for Gorm: http://www.mediafire.com/?ianwbjdsdxs Does anyone have any suggestions? Paul ___ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
Re: gnustep on windows
I just made some small changes in CairoContext.m The zip file has been updated : http://amstradstuff.free.fr/GNUstep/back-win32cairo.zip Oops... looks like someone beat me to the punch. Great minds think alike, eh? At any rate, I showed my results, and they aren't ideal. Does anyone have ideas? Paul ___ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
Re: gnustep on windows
When programming with GNUstep you will be working against the GNUstep drawing API, not cairo or GDI. It is true that the implementation of this API for cairo is more complete, but even that may be changed. Oh, I know, but it doesn't make a lot of sense to maintain multiple backends when one will serve. Also GDI vector drawing looks ugly and Cairo looks nice... so I'd prefer to use Cairo. That way, my results should be pretty much the same on Windows and Linux. You might be talking about [Camaelon][1] (spelling is important). I have read a bit about Camaelon, but my understanding is that it's a theming engine rather than an API. I also have the impression that it's a bit slow because it's pixmap-based. I was looking at the Narcissus theme engine, but the developer made the comment that his patch to NSScroller to enable theming of the scroller was rejected because it didn't conform to the theming API that had been planned. I haven't really been able to find out much about this API, however. ___ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
Re: gnustep on windows
There shouldn't be any X dependencies in the cairo backend code apart from the X surfaces of course. You should be able to provide your own MS Windows surface and use that. This gets a bit harder on the make file level, here our config scripts currently only support the cairo backend for X11. There is one other problem I see, although freetype is available for Windows you will most likely want to use native font support. For this you will need to implement your own classes or port the ones from the the winlib backend. Out of curiosity, why do you want to use cairo on Windows and not the native window interface (or one based on GDI+)? Why Cairo? Mainly because it gives me a fairly nice graphics library that's cross-platform. For fancy graphics, Cairo gives a consistent appearance across platforms, allows me to ignore platform when coding for the most part, and is much nicer looking than GDI. I'm really still exploring what's possible here, and it appears that Cairo is the most potentially capable backend. Yeah, the config scripts will be a bother if I do this, especially given that I have very little knowledge or experience with sh scripting or the GNU Build System (such experience as I have makes me want a better build system.) There already is some limited theming available in GNUstep. You find the API and the code for it in gui/Source/GSTheme.m. Thanks, I'll take a look. Paul ___ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
gnustep on windows
Currently, I am, for various reasons, tied to Windows for most of the time. I also think GNUstep looks as if it would make a good cross-platform development library (more elegant than QT, and without all the restrictions.) However, in the course of examining and attempting to build GNUstep for Windows, I've discovered that Cairo graphics for GNUstep under Windows are unimplemented. I'm interested in correcting that, and, from a cursory glance, it doesn't look tremendously difficult, but I haven't spent a lot of time yet tracking down all the bits of X dependent code, so I'm wondering if anyone knows how deep this dependency runs. When I have more time (who knows when that will be!) I will take a deeper look and try to figure out everything that needs to be done to enable the Cairo backend on Windows. On a side note, I've heard that there are plans for a theming API, but I've had some difficulty finding any details. Where could I find out about that? ___ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
