Re: Gomoku.app ported to Mac OS X

[Dirk Theisen]

Hello, Nicola!
Hello, Lars!

> > Nicola Pero, are you listening? Do you still maintain Gomoku.app?
> > Aren't  you interested to incorporate the changes into the main
> > source tree?
>
> Sorry for always answering late.
>
> The application is GNU GPL, so you are absolutely free to distribute
> your own version :-) as soon as you comply with the terms of the
> license of course.
>
> I'd be happy to incorporate changes allowing the application to run on
> MacOS-X, if that helps merchandising GNUstep, with a single important
> restriction - I don't want in my sources any file in a binary
> proprietary format which I can't read - so no apple binary nibs - you
> need to make a source-code only port.

I wonder why GNUstep is not simply using the plist format as Apple does 
for compatibility (and merging in cvs). Here is an example of the 
"nibtool" commandline tool output used for this purpose. It can also 
convert plists back into nibs. 


As I understand it, gmodel is already something similar?
It looks like an nibtool plist reader could be created in a generic way 
using keyValueCoding (correct me, if I'm wrong). 

Plists can be in XML to be even more "open" and "standard".

Just wondering...

Dirk

P.S.: An Example nibtool output from my OS X box.

theisen@trillian 
[/Users/theisen/Projects/Work/GinkoNG/Resources/English.lproj] > 
nibtool -a MessageEditor.nib/ 

/* Objects */
Objects = {

    "Object 1" = {
        Class = "NSCustomObject";
        CustomClass = "GIMessageEditorController";
        Name = "File's Owner";
        className = "GIMessageEditorController";
    };

    "Object 5" = {
        Class = "NSWindowTemplate";
        CustomClass = "NSWindow";
        Name = "Parent Window";
        autoPositionMask = "15";
        backingType = "2";
        className = "NSWindow";
        contentRect = "{{87, 311}, {461, 385}}";
        deferred = "1";
        dynamicDepthLimit = "0";
        frameAutosaveName = "<null>";
        hidesOnDeactivate = "0";
        isLockedIBObject = "0";
        maxSize = "{3.40282e+38, 3.40282e+38}";
        minSize = "{213, 297}";
        oneShot = "1";
        releasedWhenClosed = "1";
        styleMask = "14";
        title = "MessageEditor";
        visibleAtLaunch = "0";
        wantsToBeColor = "0";
    };

    "Object 6" = {
        Class = "NSDrawer";
        Name = "NSDrawer";
        preferredEdge = "0";
    };
...
/* Object Hierarchy */
Hierarchy = {
    "Object 1 <NSCustomObject> (File's Owner)" = {
        "Object -1 <IBFirstResponder> (First Responder)";
        "Object 5 <NSWindowTemplate> (Parent Window)" = {
            "Object 7 <NSView> (NSView)" = {
                "Object 11 <NSForm> (NSForm)" = {
                    "Object 12 <NSFormCell> (NSFormCell)";
                    "Object 13 <NSFormCell> (NSFormCell1)";
                };
                "Object 14 <NSScrollView> (NSScrollView)" = {
                    "Object 15 <NSTextView> (NSTextView)";
                };
                "Object 20 <NSBox> (NSBox)" = {
                    "Object 21 <NSView> (NSView)";
                };
                "Object 26 <NSPopUpButton> (NSPopUpButton)" = {
                    "Object 24 <NSMenu> (PopUpList)" = {
                        "Object 22 <NSMenuItem> (NSMenuItem)";
                        "Object 23 <NSMenuItem> (NSMenuItem1)";
                        "Object 25 <NSMenuItem> (NSMenuItem2)";
                    };
                };
                "Object 27 <NSTextField> (NSTextField)";
            };
        };
        "Object 6 <NSDrawer> (NSDrawer)";
        "Object 8 <NSCustomView> (DrawContentView)";
        "Object 35 <NSCustomObject> (GIAddressFormatter)";
    };
}; /* End Hierarchy */

...
   "Connection 36" = {
        Class = "NSNibOutletConnector";
        Destination = "35";
        Outlet = "formatter";
        Source = "12";
    };

}; /* End Connections */

/* Classes */
Classes = {
    IBClasses = (
        {CLASS = FirstResponder; LANGUAGE = ObjC; SUPERCLASS = NSObject; },
        {CLASS = GIAddressFormatter; LANGUAGE = ObjC; SUPERCLASS = 
        NSFormatter; }, 

        {
            CLASS = GIMessageEditorController;
            LANGUAGE = ObjC;
            OUTLETS = {
                accountPopup = id;
                accountText = id;
                bodyTextView = id;
                headerForm = id;
                lineView = id;
                scrollView = id;
                window = id;
            };
            SUPERCLASS = NSObject;
        }
    );
    IBVersion = 1;
}; /* End Classes */

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Dirk Theisen <d.theisen@objectpark.org>
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