Re: GNUstep text system

[Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.]

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On 2006-01-20 20:50:10 +0800 Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de> wrote:

> Rogelio M. Serrano Jr. wrote:
> > Where can we get an overview of the gnustep text system? Is it 
> > similar
> > to cocoa?
>
> Looks like nobody did answer this mail up to now, so I will try it.
>
> The GNUstep text system tries to be close in structure and 
> functionality
> to the Cocoa one. So one the highest level you have the same classes
> working together to generate the text layout NSTextView, 
> NSTextStorage,
> NSLayoutManager, NSTextContainer. Most documentation you will find for
> the Cocoa behaviour of these classes will apply to GNUstep as well.
> Where they differ it may be regarded as a bug.
> Below that level there are a lot of differences to be expected. The 
> one
> person to really explain all these differences is Alexander Malmberg.
> But perhaps you question is not going that deep? If you could restate
> your problem, it is quite possible that I or somebody else is able to
> help you that far.
> I would suggest you start reading some overview of the Cocoa text 
> system
> and then come back with more detailed questions and we try together if
> we are able to figure out how GNUstep those it
>
> Cheers
> Fred

Thanks for replying. I have been reading the cocoa docs for a few days
now. I find it to be a very good start in studying the openstep system
in detail. Is that right?

The text system is going to be my user interface in my pc and i hope
to be able to make it work on the framebuffer.
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