Re: RFC: Removal of Gorm's outline view class editor

[Quentin Mathé]

Le 5 déc. 04, à 21:14, Gregory John Casamento a écrit :

> All,
>
> As just about anyone who's used Gorm knows, the outline view can be 
> used to
> edit classes.   This is a feature which was present in IB on OPENSTEP 
> and
> NeXTSTEP, so it was felt as though this would help people make the 
> transition
> from those systems to GNUstep.
>
> Gorm also has a class inspector, which is more in-line with the 
> OPENSTEP
> "inspector" paradigm.  It is complete and it allows you to edit any 
> aspect of
> the class, just as the outline view editor does.
>
> This has been suggested a number of times before by different people 
> both on
> the list and in #gnustep, but I haven't had time to take it out.   The
> intention is to simply have a regular outline view or a browser which 
> would
> allow the user to look at the classes and use the class inspector to 
> edit the
> outlets and actions of the class.
>
> There are advantages to doing this:
>
> 1) It's more in-line with the OPENSTEP paradigm
> 2) It simplifies the code in Gorm

For me it is ok, I never handle the outlet and actions directly with 
the outline view. What I would like to see is the possibility to do a 
search in the outline view content in the same way it is possible to do 
within the class inspector.

> Disadvantages:
>
> 1) People who've gotten used to the convenience of using the classes 
> view
> editor will have to switch to the outline view (this is the other 
> major reason
> why I haven't done this).

Here I don't understand what you mean because it seems to be the exact 
opposite of what you have just explained above. … Well in fact, I think 
you want to remove the parent class choice in the class inspector (aka 
class view editor, right ?), hmm I think it is not really good idea 
because it would remove the feature we have currently which permits to 
reset the parent class of our custom class directly in Gorm unlike 
InterfaceBuilder.
Moreover what would be great is to have Gorm synchronizing not only the 
outlets and the actions with the related class files (header and 
implementation) but also the parent class we set (in the inspector).

Thanks for the RFC,
Quentin.

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Quentin Mathé
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