1 Announcement ************** This is version 0.31.0 of the GNUstep GUI library (‘gnustep-gui’). 1.1 What is the GNUstep GUI Library? ==================================== It is a library of graphical user interface classes written completely in the Objective-C language; the classes are based upon Apple’s Cocoa framework. The library has been enhanced in a number of ways to take advantage of the GNU system. These classes include graphical objects such as buttons, text fields, popup lists, browser lists, and windows; there are also many associated classes for handling events, colors, fonts, pasteboards and images. The GNUstep GUI Library is designed in two parts. The first part is the front-end component which is independent of platform and display system. This front-end is combined with a back-end component which handles all of the display system dependent such as specific calls to X/Windows. This design allows the GNUstep applications to have the "look and feel" of the underlying display system without any changes to the application, and the library can be easily ported to other display systems. The GNUstep GUI Library requires the GNU Objective-C compiler, the GNUstep Base Library, the TIFF Graphics library, Independent JPEG Group’s libjpeg library, and a back-end component from the GNUstep ’Back’ library. Additional functionality may be enabled by installing additional libraries. For example, to build the Cairo backend in the GNUstep Back library, you will need to install Cairo. 1.2 Noteworthy changes in version ‘0.31.0’ ========================================== This version adds view based cell support for NSTableView and NSOutlineView. Plus the usual bunch of bug fixes. • Add TGA detection for ImageMagick extension. • Correct endianess swapping for saving 16 and 32 bit TIFF images. • NSParagraphStyle restore old behaviour to have default tab stops. • Documentation updates. • A fix for autogsdoc documentation creation. • Improve theming for many classes. • Correct keyEquivalentModifierMask decoding in XIB files. • Add imageViewWithImage: to NSImageView. • Add implementation of NSUserInterfaceItemIdentifier to NSView. • Fix NSImageView intercepting mouse events when not editable • Move NSBox method isOpaque to GSTheme. • Many decoding improvements. • Fix compiler warnings. • Generate and install a gnustep-gui.pc file. • Add support for NSFilenamenPboardType in NSTextView. • Add support for NSPasteboardTypePNG in NSBitmapImageRep if the libpng is present. • Add support for ImageMagick >= 7.0 • Increase pasteboard timeout to 30 seconds. • Add NSAppearance implementation. • Make PACKAGE_SCOPE public on MinGW. • Started implementing NSShadow. • Move awakeFromNib implementation to NSObject instead of NSView. • Changes for libGIF 5.2 and later. • Update NSViewController with lifeCycle methods. • Avoid accessing instance variables in inline functions when compiling with MSVC. • Add method removeAllItems to NSMenu. • Add badge handling to NSDockTile. • More improvements to layout constraints. • Add implementation of NSDictionaryController. • Add implementation of the NSCollectionView classes. • Improve NSDrawer opening. • Improver CI pipeline. 1.3 Where can you get it? How can you compile it? ================================================= The gnustep-gui-0.31.0.tar.gz distribution file has been placed at . It is accompanied by gnustep-gui-0.31.0.tar.gz.sig, a PGP signature which you can validate by putting both files in the same directory and using: gpg --verify gnustep-gui-0.31.0.tar.gz.sig Signature has been created using the key with the following fingerprint: 83AA E47C E829 A414 6EF8 3420 CA86 8D4C 9914 9679 Read the INSTALL file or the GNUstep-HOWTO for installation instructions. 1.4 Where do I send bug reports? ================================ Please log bug reports on the GNUstep project page or send bug reports to . 1.5 Obtaining GNU Software ========================== Check out the GNUstep web site. (), and the GNU web site. ()