Re: Newbie Gorm Question

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at 04:32  pm, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> While the current outline view based interface in Gorm is nice for 
> viewing a
> class, the inspector is much better for adding/editing actions/outlets 
> ... so my
> ideal would be to have both ... ie restore the inspector but don't 
> throw away
> the outline view.

Actually, I'm not sure that the above is honest ... perhaps I was just 
trying to be
polite about the current class stuff ... I don't like to be negative 
about things
which have obviously taken quite a bit of work.

I just compared the classes outline view (OS4.2 like) in Gorm with the 
pictures
and instructions for managing classes in my old NeXTstep manual, and In 
fact
the old-style (similar to the latest MacOS-X style) really looks better 
to me ... so
dumping the current system for editing classes entirely might in fact 
be best.

The old NeXTstep style used a two-column browser to look at classes, 
with a
search field and a pull-down menu to subclass/instantiate/parse/unparse 
a
class at the top of the browser.  This was very convenient.  Just adding
the search field and pulldown above the current outline view would have 
a
similar effect, but would not be quite as easy to navigate as the 
browser was.