Changes to graphic context handling

2007-02-28 Thread Fred Kiefer
I am planing to implement some serious changes to NSGraphicsContext and the way this class interacts with the rest of GNUstep and wanted to publish this plans first, so you may comment on them. Currently GNUstep uses mostly just one graphics context, the one set up in NSApplication. Only for print

Shipping Windows binary applications

2007-02-28 Thread Nicola Pero
Ok ... I had to start Windows up to check some web pages under IE 7, and then since I was there I thought I'd give another try to GNUstep on Windows. It looks pretty cool. I updated the core/make/Documentation/README.MinGW file on trunk. Please note that (between other things) the recommended fil

Re: Shipping Windows binary applications

2007-02-28 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
On 28 Feb 2007, at 16:00, Nicola Pero wrote: 1. the alert panel asking you to set your 'Server Preferences' is very annoying and very unprofessional. I keep getting it any time I change something and it's horrid. :-( I *think* it used to open the server preferences panel rather than po

Re: Shipping Windows binary applications

2007-02-28 Thread Nicola Pero
> I *think* it used to open the server preferences panel rather than > pop up an alert panel ... not sure why that's happening. > Also, it should only happen first time ... so if it keeps happening > then there is a bug somewhere. I think at the moment it boths pops up an alert panel *and* th

Re: Changes to graphic context handling

2007-02-28 Thread Adam Fedor
On Feb 28, 2007, at 4:20 AM, Fred Kiefer wrote: Why do this? One reason is of course to follow the change that Apple has done for OS 10.4. With our current setup we could not implement many of the methods on the class NSGraphicsContext nor some on NSView. Another reason is to get rid of the

Re: Changes to graphic context handling

2007-02-28 Thread Fred Kiefer
Adam Fedor schrieb: > > On Feb 28, 2007, at 4:20 AM, Fred Kiefer wrote: > >> Why do this? One reason is of course to follow the change that Apple has >> done for OS 10.4. With our current setup we could not implement many of >> the methods on the class NSGraphicsContext nor some on NSView. Anothe

Re: Shipping Windows binary applications

2007-02-28 Thread Fred Kiefer
Nicola Pero schrieb: >> I *think* it used to open the server preferences panel rather than >> pop up an alert panel ... not sure why that's happening. >> Also, it should only happen first time ... so if it keeps happening >> then there is a bug somewhere. > > I think at the moment it boths pop