NSStringWithRect formats

[Matthias Hengartner]

Hello,

 

There are 3 (or more?) different formats produced by "NSStringFromRect" GNUstep, OPENSTEP and MacOSX:

 

a)

{x=1; y=2; width=3; height=4}

 

b)

{x = 1; y = 2; width = 3; height = 4}

 

c)

{{1, 2}, {3, 4}}

 

 

- GNUstep produces a), but can read a), b) and c)

- OPENSTEP (version 4.2 for Windows) produces b) and can read only b)

- MacOSX produces c), but can read a), b) and c)

 

("read" means parse with NSRectFromString)

The same applies also to "NSStringFromPoint" and "NSStringFromSize" - and probably others.

 

Since format b) can be read by all 3 platforms, it would be reasonable to use this in GNUtep (As you can see, the differences between a) and b) are only the blanks).

 

But I don't know if there are other versions of OPENSTEP or MacOSX which aren't compatible to format b) ??

 

If not, I'll suggest a bugfix for NSStringFromRect (and the other functions).

Furthermore, the Method "encodeRect:withName:" (etc.) from GMArchiver needs to be changed, too.

 

 

Best regards from Zurich,

Matthias Hengartner

 

 

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