Re: DBModeler to Gorm drag&drop problem

[Matt Rice]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf
<lars.sonchocky-helldorf@hamburg.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am currently in the process of preparing a live-demo of DBModeler, Gorm
> and ProjectCenter for FOSDEM similar to what Matt Rice did in his videos.
>
>
> For that purpose I installed Ubuntu 8.10 inside a SUN VirtualBox VM. My aim
> doing so is to show how easy it is to start developing with GNUstep. For the
> same reason I got GNUstep and the dev-tools installed by the services that
> Ubuntu provides. As you might know this is not the latest and greatest of
> GNUstep but it works (somewhat).
>
>
> One of the things that don't work seems to be drag and drop from DBModeler
> to Gorm. I think I got everything needed installed and activated: DBModeler,
> Gorm, the GDL2.palette. When I drag an entity or an relation from DBModeler
> into the instances-window (is it called that way?) of Gorm the mouse cursor
> changes to a small forbidden-sign.
>
> When I now try to drop the entity or relationship snaps back into its place
> in the DBModeler Window. I tried several modifier keys: shift, control, alt
> (causes the whole window to move), command (shows the menu at the mouse
> position), nothing worked so far.
>
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> What could be the cause for this? Incompatible versions of DBModeler, Gorm
> and the GDL2.palette (I got some funky version 0.0.0(alpha) of DBModeler of
> 2006 (or was the info panel not updated), version 1.2.2 (Release) of Gorm of
> 5th of November 2007 and an unknown version of the GDL2.palette (how do I
> find out the version here?))?

Hrm, thats a good question,
the version number, and that copyright for DBModeler in the plist have
not been updated
I suppose it would be good to make this align with the gdl2 version
and generate the plist from the gdl2 configure script

not sure how to get the palette version, but it appears ubuntu is
using what corresponds to gdl2-0.11
the latest release

>
> Is it maybe Gnome which interferes with GNUstep here? I also tried Window
> Maker what didn't help the cause a bit. What else could I try?
>
>
> And my final question: Is there alternative way of getting the GDL2 stuff
> from DBModeler inside Gorm? Otherwise this would possibly bust my talk since
> I don't have that much time left to track down that issue.
>

this sounds like the same thing as http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?25407
which is fixed with this change to DBModeler
http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/gnustep?rev=27693&sortby=date&view=rev

so i'd try either patching it or upgrading gdl2 to the svn version