GNUstep/Etoile progress

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi all,

I have a bunch of guys (employees of a customer) that refuse to work 
with the GNUstep version of our enterprise application and instead 
would like to keep their Mac because of the following reasons:

• Selecting multiple rows in a tableview just by dragging down works in 
GNUstep. However, as soon as the mouse reaches the bottom of the 
tableview, the tableview should scroll down and continue selecting rows 
until the user releases the mouse button. At least that is what the Mac 
does and what users expect. This does not work in GNUstep (at least not 
in my version which is already a couple of months old). Has this been 
worked on recently?

• We use drawers for a bunch of things. In our version of GNUstep, they 
are simply not available/usable, so the GNUstep version of our app 
lacks some functionality. We have tried to avoid drawers as much as 
possible but there some things that can only be realized reasonably in 
a drawer, e.g. privileges of a database object or the outline of a 
document,.... Is anybody successfully using drawers in a GNUstep 
application (Etoile)? Any screenshots of the latest code 
(GNUstep/Etoile)? I would look into that by myself but since this also 
requires artwork (goes beyond my set of skills)... Here is a screenshot 
of how a drawer looks on MacOSX.

The round edges are probably not that easy to implement but they really 
make this look neat.

• There's already a Busy.app to emulate the hour glass of MacOSX for a 
not responding application. Unfortunately I have never been able to get 
this to work on Solaris. I will install and retry that with a more 
recent version of Solaris but if anybody has this already running I 
would be glad to hear how and on what version of Solaris. :-)

Thanks to all for the great work on GNUstep/Etoile!

Best regards,

 Andreas