GNUstep Gui Release Notes $Revision$ $Date$ Gui Release Notes

The release notes include descriptions of API changes, behavior changes and other information that might help developers and users migrate to using a newer version of the library.

Version 0.9.5

NSColor colors Added new control colors and methods from 10.3 version of Cocoa. NSFont methods Added new font methods from 10.3 version of Cocoa NSApplication -runModalSession Behavior of this method was changed. In particular it deviates from Cocoa documentation. See the GNUstep GUI documentation for specifics. Runtime version discovery of library A developer can discover the version of the gui library that is loaded using the NSBundle methods [[NSBundle bundleForLibrary: @"gnustep-gui"] infoDictionary] and retrieving the GSBundleVersion key.
Version 0.9.4

Interface version change The interface version of the gui library has changed in this release. There is no single reason for this change. Arguably, it should have been done long ago. In the future the interface version will only change with releases that have a new minor version number (that's the second number in the release number). Applications, libraries and tools that wish to use this new version must be recompiled (otherwise, they'll use the older version of the library). PPD's removed All the PPD's have been removed from the gui library into a separate package (gnustep-ppd). There still exists a single Generic Postscript Printer PPD which should work in many cases for printing using the standard lpr interface. In the future, a CUPS interface should be available that provides all the necessary printer information automatically. If you still want use of the PPD's, you must install the gnustep-ppd package, although this is not required for use of gnustep-gui. Printing framework The printing framework was generalized to allow for various types of native printing systems. The lpr system is the only complete one, although CUPS printing is in the works. As such, the printing classes were revamped to handle this, and the actual system-specific code is loaded from a bundle. NSScroller, NSScrollView class size change A new ivar was added to the NSScroller and NSScrollView classes.
Version 0.9.3

Spell checker daemon reimplemented using libaspell If the optional library libaspell is found, the spell checker will use it (otherwise spell checking will not work). New NSComboBox implementation NSComboBox and related classes have been re-implemented and documented. NSToolbar code redone A lot of changes where made to the NSToolbar class to make it more functional. Binary Incompatibilities New ivars were added NSTableView, NSView, NSSavePanel. Applications that use this class and subclasses (e.g. NSOutlineView) may need to be recompiled to work properly.