Saturday, July 15, 2006

Nib loading working in GNUstep

As you can see from the screenshot, Gorm is now able to load nibs just fine.



Gorm should be able to save nibs in the next few weeks. This is a huge step forward for GNUstep. Builder and Loader classes have been added along with a factory class which gets the appropriate builder/loader for a given format. Gorm has also been changed so that it is effectively format agnostic. This means that it can accept any format that a builder/loader class can give it.

In addition to the above Gorm also uses the NSDocument* classes instead of implementing it's own framework.

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