Re: NSdrawInRect... (AppKit) not implemented [suggestion]

[Fred Kiefer]

Hi Colin,

Colin Howarth wrote:
>  
> I'm trying out the "latest" version of GNUStep (from startup 0.9.2) (on 
> a Debian unstable system - but that's not really the problem, I think :-)
>  
> I couldn't figure out why NSdrawInRect... wasn't working, but 
> NSdissolveToPoint:fromRect: etc were. Eventually I looked at the source 
> code :-) and the answer is obvious: the function is not implemented.
>  

this is somewhat hard to understand. There aren't any NSdrawInRect or 
NSdissolveToPoint:fromRect: functions in GNUstep or Cocoa. You are 
probably refering to the methods on NSImage, dissolveToPoint:fraction: 
and drawInRect:fromRect:operation:fraction:. If so, then the later has 
been implemented in the meantime. (Startup only provides the latest 
release code, development goes on in CVS) I would expect a new release 
of GUI to be due within the next month, but don't hold your breath on it.

> suggestion: could you at least put in an NSLog or something to let 
> people know that it's not implemented yet?
>  

Yes, I remember a discussion from years back, if the missing methods 
should fail (raise an exception) or just log that they are not 
implemented. We decided on the later, but did not implement it. Sorry 
for that. I remember writing a METHOD_NOT_YET_IMPLEMENTED macro to ease 
this, but never commited it.

> I'd like to help - but I'm an absolute beginner at ObjC and GNUstep so 
> it'll be a while ...
>  

Great, there surely will still be work to do, when you are up to speed.

Fred