Re: Will gnustep support the new xib format of Xcode 5

[Vincent R.]

Le 19.08.2013 23:39, Gregory Casamento a écrit :
> Yes, I will be working on support for it.
>
>  Right now GNUsteps libraries support XIB files, but Gorm itself
> doesnt.   I am working on XIB support for the current version of the
> format.  The XML you showed doesnt seem significantly different,
> though I need more information to determine if we can support it

Don't understand why you say Gorm presently doesn't support XIB because 
because it's possible
to open one xib file and see what it looks like. Last time I tried Gorm 
what was missing was
the possibility to save a xib.

While I am talking about xib please find a small video showing what I 
was able to do by translating
GNUstep implementation into c# : 
www.smartmobili.com/downloads/XibBuilder.mkv.
The video shows a xib viewer that allow to load xib file (AppKit only) 
and display them.
The UI rendering is done in WPF but the business logic behind and the 
object creation is using GNUstep
implementation. The GNUStep translation in c# is available here : 
https://github.com/smartmobili/CocoaBuilder/tree/master/XibParser

This project was at the beginning a "just for fun" project but now it 
could be consider as a proof of concept of
a "managed" GNUstep. If I still have time it would be interesting to go 
further and to also implement the UI rendering
but to do it I would need to change the way I have done the translation 
and it implies a lot of work.

I am also working on an objc rewriter using clang that would allow to 
translate GNUstep files (objc) into c# but I have some hard time
with the translation of message calls.