Re: Newbie Gorm Question

[Gregory Casamento]

See below....
--- Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@brainstorm.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> 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.

That's your opinion and you are welcome to it.  So long as things are *better*
when we are done.   I was, for a while considering implementing such a thing in
addition to the current outline view to give the user another way of
interfacing with Gorm.   

I also added a preferences panel to which we can add the user's choice of
interface.   I think this is a better option than dumping the current code
which works and is familiar to people who have used OPENSTEP 4.2.
 
> 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.

This is why implementing an alternate classes view might be cool instead of
replacing the current implementation wholesale.

Later, GJC


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Gregory John Casamento
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