Re: cross platform question

[Gregory Casamento]

On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 5:43 AM Johannes Brakensiek <johannes@brakensiek.info> wrote:

Hi Andreas,

On 14 May 2020, at 10:56, Andreas Fink wrote:

If you want to write new apps running on MacOS X & GNUstep, what would you use to create the nib/xib/storyboard stuff which Xcode manages normally for you?
Handcoded source files? or is there an easier way.

I was investigating this for some time. For now two approaches seem reasonable to me.

The first one is creating xib files using Xcode and use these files with GNUstep. This works (somewhat well) since the latest GNUstep release.

The only XIBs that don't load are ones which contain classes we don't have.  This is a situation I am in the middle of resolving.

 

I did some basic documentation here: http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/XIB
I have an experimental port of an app which uses this and kind of runs (thanks to the help of Fred): https://github.com/Letterus/app-time-tracker

This approach would be even nicer if xib 5 support would be added to Gorm.

This is coming. :)

The other approach is to use lib Renaissance¹ which requires writing xml files and f.e. is used by FisicaLab² or EOModelEditor³.

For which you need to hand code XML.... :/

Let me know what you think.

Johannes

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1. http://www.gnustep.it/Renaissance/index.html | https://github.com/gnustep/libs-renaissance ↩

2. https://www.gnu.org/software/fisicalab/ ↩

3. https://github.com/gnustep/libs-gdl2/tree/master/Apps/EOModelEditor ↩

GC

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