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<title>GNUstep Base</title>
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<h1>GNUstep Base</h1>
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<h3>Authors</h3>
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<dt><a href="http://www.gnustep.org/developers/whoiswho.html">Richard Frith-Macdonald</a>
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<p>Version: 0.1</p>
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<p>Date: 28 February, 2000</p>
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<h2><a name="cont-0">Base</a></h2>
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2000-09-08 18:41:41 +00:00
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The GNUstep base library is a free software package implementing
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the API of the OpenStep Foundation Kit (tm), including later
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additions.
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<h3><a name="cont-1">Compatibility</a></h3>
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GNUstep is generally compatible with the OpenStep specification and
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with recent developments of the MacOS (cocoa) API. Where MacOS
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deviates from the OpenStep API, GNUstep generally attempts to
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support both versions. In some cases the newer MacOS APIs are
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incompatible with OpenStep, and GNUstep usually supports the richer
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version.
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In order to deal with compatiblity issues, GNUstep uses two
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mechanisms - it provides conditionally compiled sections of
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the library header files, so that software can be built that
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will conform strictly to a particular API, and it provides
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user default settings to control the behavior of the library
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at runtime.
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</p>
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<h4><a name="cont-2">Conditional compilation</a></h4>
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Adding an option to a makefile to define one of the following
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preprocessor constants will modify the API visible to software
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being compiled -
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</p>
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<dt>NO_GNUSTEP
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GNUstep specific extensions to the OpenStep and MacOS cocoa
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APIs are excluded from the headers.
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<dt>STRICT_MACOS_X
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Only methods and classes that are part of the MacOS cocoa
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API are made available in the headers.
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<dt>STRICT_OPENSTEP
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<dd>
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Only methods and classes that are part of the OpenStep
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specification are made available in the headers.
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</dl>
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<h4><a name="cont-3">User defaults</a></h4>
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Setting the user default <code>GSMacOSXCompatible</code> to
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<code>YES</code> will cause MacOS compatible behavior to be
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the default at runtime. This default may however be overridden
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to provide more fine grained control of system behavior.
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</p>
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<dl>
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<dt>GSMacOSXCompatibleGeometry
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<dd>
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Specifies whether the functions for producing strings describing
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geometrical structures (NSStringFromPoint(), NSStringFromSize(),
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and NSStringFromRect()) should produce strings conforming to the
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OpenStep specification or to MacOS-X behavior. The functions
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for parsing those strings should cope with both cases anyway.
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</dl>
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<h3><a name="cont-4">The classes</a></h3>
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