Re: Cocoa to GnuStep

[Philippe C.D. Robert]

Hi,

On Sun, 19 May 2002, Mark Lucas wrote:
> I'm just getting into Cocoa and have just finished attending Aaron's class
> at the Big Nerd Ranch (excellent course).  I need to support Linux and
> probably some Solaris platforms for our open source image processing, remote
> sensing, and GIS applications at remotesensing.org (see www.ossim.org ).
> 
> How viable is it to port from Cocoa to GnuStep for the GUI? (the core code
> is already Linux based C++ libraries)

The main problem here is that you cannot use nib files from MOSX on GNUstep,
instead you have to create the GUI programmatically or using GORM. See ie.
GNUMail.app which runs on MOSX and GNUstep.

-Phil
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