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Re: Bigger change to NSView
From: |
Gregory John Casamento |
Subject: |
Re: Bigger change to NSView |
Date: |
Sat, 28 Feb 2004 10:40:01 -0800 (PST) |
Fred,
--- Fred Kiefer <address@hidden> wrote:
> Some days ago I hacked in some new Cocoa methods to NSView (e.g.
> isHidden). To fully support the functionality here, we need another ivar
> to store the value for this. As you know, this change will require, to
> recompile all libraries and applications using local subclasses of
> NSView. Which will result in almost everything needing a recompile.
>
> As this is a big step, I don't want to do it for the upcoming release,
> but rather for the 0.9.3 release. Given that backward compatibility gets
> broken anyway, we could think about making a few deeper changes in other
> places as well.
<the rest.. snipped>
Please be certain that backwards compatibility will not be broken as it
pertains to unarchiving .gorm files with classes that depend on NSView. This
should be done in a way that allows .gorm files created prior to the change to
load without issue.
This is in the coding standards for GNUstep. :)
GJC
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Gregory John Casamento -- CEO/President Open Logic Corp.
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