Weekly Update

[Adam Fedor]

At http://www.gnustep.org

Week ending 23 September 2000



gstep-base (Foundation)


GSXML - Tidied API.  Added parser initialisation/creation methods to read
from file, data, or url consistent with other class APIs.  Added support for
incrementally parsing a document in chunks of data.  Added text description of
node type, added method for handling character encodings, Various bugfixes.
NSURL - Implemented resource loading/saving (untested)
NSURLHandle - Implemented, along with a concrete subclass for handling
file URLs.
NSData - added methods for initialisation from URLs, fix for file loading
on MINGW.
NSArray - added optional generation of xml property-lists
NSDictionary - added optional generation of xml property-lists
GSCompatibility - added XML property-list generator, added rint()
function implementation if not available natively.
NSRunLoop - added workaround for bug in MINGW select().
NSString - use fileSystemRepresentation implementation from
NSFileManager, new code for improved handling of string encodings, UTF8
support added.
NSTask - use fileSystemRepresentation for paths.
NSUser - home directory fixes for MINGW.
NSFileManager - improve checking to see if a path is a directory on MINGW.
fixup paths that might be from unix-like utilities on MINGW.
Test programs - fixes for MINGW.


gstep-gui (AppKit frontend)


GSSimpleLayoutManager - new class for basic text handling.
GSTextStorage - minor fix - don't make internal string public.


gstep-xgps (AppKit backend)


Fix for multi-click support - two clicks must occur in about the same
place as well as within a short time interval in order to be considered a
double-click.


gstep-make (Makefiles package)


Minor bugfixes.

Week ending 23 September 2000

gstep-base (Foundation)

• GSXML - Tidied API. Added parser initialisation/creation methods to read from file, data, or url consistent with other class APIs. Added support for incrementally parsing a document in chunks of data. Added text description of node type, added method for handling character encodings, Various bugfixes.
• NSURL - Implemented resource loading/saving (untested)
• NSURLHandle - Implemented, along with a concrete subclass for handling file URLs.
• NSData - added methods for initialisation from URLs, fix for file loading on MINGW.
• NSArray - added optional generation of xml property-lists
• NSDictionary - added optional generation of xml property-lists
• GSCompatibility - added XML property-list generator, added rint() function implementation if not available natively.
• NSRunLoop - added workaround for bug in MINGW select().
• NSString - use fileSystemRepresentation implementation from NSFileManager, new code for improved handling of string encodings, UTF8 support added.
• NSTask - use fileSystemRepresentation for paths.
• NSUser - home directory fixes for MINGW.
• NSFileManager - improve checking to see if a path is a directory on MINGW. fixup paths that might be from unix-like utilities on MINGW.
• Test programs - fixes for MINGW.

gstep-gui (AppKit frontend)

• GSSimpleLayoutManager - new class for basic text handling.
• GSTextStorage - minor fix - don't make internal string public.

gstep-xgps (AppKit backend)

• Fix for multi-click support - two clicks must occur in about the same place as well as within a short time interval in order to be considered a double-click.

gstep-make (Makefiles package)

• Minor bugfixes.