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Acknowledgements -
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Icons - Mostly by Andrew Lindsay.
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Code - GormViewKnobs.m adapted from code by Gerrit van Dyk.
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8th December 1999
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This is Gorm version 0.0 ... a very pre-pre-alpha release.
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Please note - to build this code you will need the latest library source
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from the CVS repository, and it may be that you also need to be using the
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xgps backend rather than xdps (I don't have xdps running to test it on).
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Gorm is an acronym for Graphic Object Relationship modeler (or perhaps
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GNUstep Object Relationship Modeler).
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Gorm is a clone of the NeXTstep 'Interface Builder' application for GNUstep.
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Gorm is not 'gormless' (a Yorkshire dialect word that my parents used when they
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spotted me staring, slack-jawed, at the TV).
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My aim in writing this is to get a usable IB clone working before the new
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millenium, so there is not much time left.
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By 'usable' I mean that, at least for simple user interfaces, it should be
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possible to create/edit/test archived representations of an interface more
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easily using Gorm than by coding by hand.
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This initial version of the software doesn't come close to that goal - so
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don't go expecting very much.
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Current state -
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Save/Load 'nib' documents (binary archived data)
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This works so far as it can be tested - but that's just archives containing
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windows or panels so far.
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Load palettes
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Loading of palettes works. You can load palettes from the 'Tools' menu.
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Gorm automatically loads all the palettes from its Resources directory.
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Basic framework
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So far, the app provides a basic framework that needs fleshing out.
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It has a palettes manager object that allows you to select a palette and
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drag items from the palette into your document.
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It has a special per-document editor object, which keeps track of a matrix
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of icons representing the top-level objects in the document.
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It has an inspector manager class, which updates the inspector panel
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when the selected object is changed by an editor.
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It has special inspectors for handling an empty selection or a multiple
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selection.
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Palettes
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Four palettes (three of which are empty at present) are built and installed
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in the apps Resources directory.
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The Window palette is more fully fleshed out than the other palettes.
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It permits windows and panels to be created in Gorm.
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If provides the start of a window attributes inspector.
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18 December 1999
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You can drag views from a palette into a window or panel.
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You can select views in a window by clicking on them, shift-clicking
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(for multiple selection), or click-drag on the window background to select
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views in a box.
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You can delete/cut/copy/paste views betwen windows.
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You can move views in a window by clicking on them and dragging.
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You can resize views by clicking on their knobs and dragging.
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You can control-drag to mark source and destination views for a connection.
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Next task - inspectors.
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The connection inspector needs to be implemented to complete the process of
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establishing connections.
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The size inspector needs to be implemented to set autosizing parameters for
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a view.
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Once these are done, the object editor needs to be made to support connections
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so that we can connect between objects other than views, then we need to write
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a menu editor.
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