Sunday, December 21, 2008

Update on Bean and Flexisheet...

Well, after a number of improvements recently, Bean is a hair's breadth from working without a hitch. Please see the attached picture below. The only thing left now is to implement some new NSDocument methods which Bean requires in order to work and we should be good to go. These methods are:

-[NSDocument readFileWrapper:ofType:error:] and
-[NSDocument readFile:ofType:error]


















We're also very close to getting the spreadsheet that we were working on going. It's called Flexisheet. You can see a screenshot of it here:


















The apps themselves are virtually unchanged from their Mac OS X versions. The only corrections necessary in Bean were to not use isEqualTo: (which is a scripting method) and to use isEqual: to compare some objects. Other than that these apps work right from the source. Bean, in fact is built using pbxbuild which is a tool in GNUstep that builds .xcode projects directly. The pbxbuild tool is still in beta but works very well on Windows and all Unixes (Linux, BSD, Solaris). Your help in testing it would be appreciated.

Anyway... I know I don't post as often as I used to and I plan to change that. Thanks for your support of GNUstep. :)

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Riccardo said...

well, in the case of FlexiSheed we didd need to clean up somec ode. It stil works fine on the mac.

This shows something we did know already: many mac applications are shiny on the outside and sloppy coded and badly portable.
Now that Mac has garbage colleciton the code quality will deteriorate even more...

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