Re: Newbie Gorm Question

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at 04:18  pm, Gregory Casamento wrote:
> Everyone has his/her preferences about how it "should" have been done.
>
> Being "in line" with the "philosophy of Gorm" (The Tao of Gorm?) is to 
> be in
> line with how it works on either OPENSTEP or MOSX.  Since GNUstep uses 
> the NeXT
> style interface I thought it best to implement it as it was under 
> OPENSTEP.
> The way it works in Gorm is the way it works under OPENSTEP.  The 
> reason for
> this is so that people coming from either OPENSTEP or MOSX will be 
> able to make
> the transition without needing to relearn anything.
>
> There was never a "Class" inspector in IB under OPENSTEP,

I don't know about that, but there was one in NeXTstep (and Gorm) ...
and it was much nicer to use than the later OPENSTEP/Rhapsody mechanism.

> nor is there, to my
> knowledge, a class inspector in IB under MOSX (I can check now that 
> I've got a
> G4).

MacOS-X now has a class inspector somewhat similar to the NeXTstep
one again.

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.