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<!DOCTYPE gsdoc PUBLIC "-//GNUstep//DTD gsdoc 1.0.3//EN" "http://www.gnustep.org/gsdoc-1_0_3.xml">
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<gsdoc base="ReleaseNotes">
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<head>
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<title>GNUstep Gui Release Notes</title>
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<author name="Adam Fedor">
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<email address="fedor@gnu.org"/>
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<url url="http://www.gnustep.org/developers/whoiswho.html"/>
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</author>
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<version>$Revision$</version>
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<date>$Date$</date>
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<copy>2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</copy>
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</head>
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<body>
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<chapter>
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<heading>Gui Release Notes</heading>
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<p>
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The release notes include descriptions of API changes, behavior
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changes and other information that might help developers and users
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migrate to using a newer version of the library.
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</p>
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<section>
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<heading>Version 0.17.1</heading>
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<p>Bug fixes.
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</p>
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<deflist>
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<term>NSFont</term>
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<desc>
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Add some missing interface methods from 10.5
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</desc>
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<term>NSSplitView</term>
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<desc>
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Add live resize (can be turned off with GSUseGhostResize default)
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</desc>
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</deflist>
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</section>
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<section>
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<heading>Version 0.17.0</heading>
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<p>Many many bug fixes and almost complete reorganization of NSToolbar
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code.
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</p>
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<deflist>
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<term>NSBezierPath, NSAttributedString, NSLayoutManager</term>
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<desc>
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New Mac OS X 10.5 methods.
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</desc>
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<term>NSSpeechSynthesizer</term>
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<desc>
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New class.
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</desc>
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<term>NSSplitView</term>
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<desc>
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Added new Mac OS X 10.5 methods and some ivars
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</desc>
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<term>Toolbars</term>
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<desc>
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Many improvements. NSToolbar methods rearragned and ivar removed.
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</desc>
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<term>Menus</term>
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<desc>
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MS Window-stype menus inside a window implemented
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</desc>
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<term>Garbage Collection</term>
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<desc>
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Several improvements to work better with GC
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</desc>
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<term>HelpViewer</term>
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<desc>
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GSHelpViewer use default added.
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</desc>
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</deflist>
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</section>
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<section>
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<heading>Version 0.16.0</heading>
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<p>This is an stable release. A lot of improvements and bug
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fixes went into this release. Thanks to Wolfgang Lux for fixing plenty
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of bugs. Note that gnustep-core is now installed in the LOCAL domain
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by default instead of the SYSTEM domain. You may want to remove old
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installations in the SYSTEM domain to avoid any incompatibility problems.
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Or you can force installation in SYSTEM using make
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GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN=SYSTEM install.
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</p>
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<deflist>
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<term>Nib Loading</term>
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<desc>
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Several methods were added and Nib loading in general was refactored
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and improved.
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</desc>
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<term>NSDocument</term>
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<desc>
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Document autosaving was implemented.
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</desc>
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<term>NSSavePanel</term>
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<desc>
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Several methods were added to implement support for document types
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with multiple allowed file extensions.
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</desc>
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<term>NSWindow</term>
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<desc>
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Definitions and skeleton implementation of attachedSheet.
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</desc>
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<term>NSTextView</term>
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<desc>
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Renamed and changed types of attributes related to drag and drop.
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</desc>
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<term>NSLayoutManager</term>
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<desc>
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New methods added to handle temporary attributes.
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</desc>
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<term>NSWindowController</term>
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<desc>
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NSWindowController was made a subclass of NSResponder.
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</desc>
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<term>NSCell</term>
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<desc>
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Rearranged somewhat to use GSTheme implemetations.
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</desc>
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<term>NSTokenField, NSTokenFieldCell</term>
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<desc>
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New classes added.
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</desc>
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</deflist>
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</section>
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<section>
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<heading>Version 0.14.0</heading>
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<p>This is an stable release.
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</p>
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<deflist>
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<term>NSGlyphGenerator</term>
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<desc>
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New class for glyph generation (separated from other classes).
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</desc>
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<term>NSControl -mouseDownFlags</term>
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<desc>
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Added old NeXT method for compatibility.
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</desc>
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<term>NSSplitView</term>
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<desc>
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setAutosaveName: implemented and new instance variable added.
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</desc>
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<term>NSOpenGLView</term>
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<desc>
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Added some Mac OS X 10.3 methods.
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</desc>
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</deflist>
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</section>
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<section>
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<heading>Version 0.13.2</heading>
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<p>This is an unstable release.
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</p>
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<deflist>
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<term>NSPopUpButtonCell</term>
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<desc>
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The encoding of this object was changed (which is backwards compatible,
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but not forwards compatible.
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</desc>
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<term>NSTextView</term>
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<desc>
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Add new X secondary selection behavior. Other Mac OS X methods added.
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</desc>
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<term>NSWindow</term>
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<desc>
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Device interaction with backend has changed. This release of gui
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requires the coresponding gnustep-back release 0.13.2.
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</desc>
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<term>NSSegmentedCell</term>
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<desc>
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New class added to draw and render text in segments.
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</desc>
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<term>NSDrawer</term>
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<desc>
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Implemented.
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</desc>
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</deflist>
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</section>
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<section>
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<heading>Version 0.13.1</heading>
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<p>This is an unstable release.
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Changes to error handling and key-value coding require an
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update to at least the base library version 1.15.1.
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</p>
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<deflist>
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<term>NSMenu</term>
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<desc>
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Added more MacOS X methods and an ivar.
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</desc>
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<term>NSView</term>
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<desc>
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Added support for hiding views.
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</desc>
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<term>Key-Value bindings</term>
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<desc>
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Added Key-Value bindings implementation (NSKeyValueBinding)
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with support in several classes (NSControl, NSTextField, NSView,
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etc).
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</desc>
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<term>NSTableView</term>
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<desc>
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Added some MacOS X 10.4 methods.
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</desc>
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<term>NSCursor</term>
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<desc>
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Changed hot point to 0,0 for MacOS X compatibility.
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</desc>
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</deflist>
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</section>
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<section>
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<heading>Version 0.13.0</heading>
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<p>This is an unstable release.
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Changes to error handling and key-value coding require an
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update to at least the base library version 1.15.1.
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</p>
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<deflist>
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<term>Licence</term>
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<desc>
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Switched to use LGPL 3 and GPL 3.
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</desc>
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<term>New Methods added</term>
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<desc>
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Added new methods from Mac OS X 10.4 for NSDragging, NSFontDescriptor,
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NSAttributedString, NSImageView, NSStringDrawing, NSParagraphStyle,
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NSView, NSCell, NSActionCell, NSAlert, NSApplication, NSBitmapImageRep,
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NSBox, NSColor, NSColorSpace, NSComboBox, NSComboBoxCell,
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NSDocumentController, NSEvent, NSScreen, NSFont, NSFontManager,
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NSFormCell, NSForm, NSWindow, NSTextField, NSTextFieldCell.
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Some ivar names were changed also.
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</desc>
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<term>Printing</term>
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<desc>
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Moved Postscript printing methods from NSView to NSGraphicsContext.
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</desc>
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<term>View drawing</term>
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<desc>
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Rewrote the NSView drawing mechanism to always use
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[displayRectIgnoringOpacity:inContext].
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</desc>
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<term>Flipped Controls</term>
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<desc>
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Report more controls as being flipped. (NSTextField, NSTableHeaderView,
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NSSlider, NSProgressIndicator, NSButton) NSTabView is still missing.
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</desc>
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<term>Font Attribute</term>
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<desc>
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Add font attribute fixing to NSAttributedString. To allow for the output
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of glyphs not present in the current font.
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</desc>
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<term>Optimization</term>
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<desc>
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In NSAffineTransform use optimized primitive methods from
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base.
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Optimized the validation of edited cells.
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</desc>
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<term>Key-Value Binding</term>
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<desc>
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Implementation of special connectors for Key-Value binding.
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</desc>
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</deflist>
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</section>
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<section>
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<heading>Version 0.12.0</heading>
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<p>
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It has been a long time since the last release and many things
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have been added and changed, including new classes, new ivars,
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and new methods.
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</p>
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<deflist>
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<term>Tooltips</term>
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<desc>
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A Tooltip implementation was added.
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</desc>
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<term>NSBitmapImage Improvements</term>
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<desc>
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Lots of improvements to the NSBitmapImage subclasses.
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</desc>
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<term>Theming Improvements</term>
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<desc>
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GSTheme and other classes were added to improve support
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of theming.
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</desc>
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<term>New Methods added</term>
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<desc>
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Added new methods from Mac OS X 10.4 for NSControl, NSResponder,
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NSDocument, NSPrintOperation, NSWindowController, NSCell,
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NSMenuItem, NSView. Some ivar names were changed also.
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</desc>
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<term>New ivars added</term>
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<desc>
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Added new ivars for NSMenuItem, NSPrintOperation, NSTableView,
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NSDrawer, NSScrollView, NSAlert, NSTextView.
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</desc>
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<term>New Classes Added</term>
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<desc>
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New classes from Mac OS X 10.4 and earlier were added including
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NSLevelIndicator, NSObjectController, NSUserDefaultsController,
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NSKeyValueBinding, NSArrayController, NSController.
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</desc>
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<term>NSSpellServer moved to base</term>
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<desc>
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NSSpellServer was moved to GNUstep base for Mac OS X
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compatibility.
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</desc>
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<term>NSTabViewType enumerations</term>
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<desc>
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Enumerations were changed to match values from Mac OS X.
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</desc>
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<term>GNUstep GUI updated for Make 2.0</term>
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<desc>
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GNUstep GUI was updated to work with GNUstep Make 2.0. This
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includes versioned resources.
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</desc>
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<term>NSAffineTransform moved to base</term>
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<desc>
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Much of NSAffineTransform was moved to gnustep-base to match
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with Mac OS X. Many older methods were marked as deprecated
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in favor of the more recent Mac OS X methods.
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</desc>
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<term>NSAlert in alternate threads</term>
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<desc>
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NSAlerts are performed in the main thread even if called
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from another thread.
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</desc>
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<term>NSAnimation Class Added</term>
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<desc>
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Preliminary code for the NSAnimation class has been added.
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Only NSAnimationNonBlocking mode implemented.
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</desc>
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</deflist>
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</section>
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<section>
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<heading>Version 0.11.0</heading>
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<deflist>
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<term>Keyed Encoding/Archiving</term>
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<desc>
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Support for keyed encoding has been added to all gui classes.
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</desc>
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<term>Nib loading</term>
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<desc>
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Nib loading has been implemented. For the most part, nibs
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are (or should be) compatible between GNUstep and Mac OS X.
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</desc>
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<term>Color schemes and Themes</term>
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<desc>
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Better support for color schemes and themes has been added. In
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the near future theming should be integrated into gui itself.
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</desc>
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<term>RTFD</term>
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<desc>
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Loading and writting of RTFD format was implemented.
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</desc>
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</deflist>
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</section>
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<section>
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<heading>Version 0.10.3</heading>
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<deflist>
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<term>Horizontal menus</term>
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<desc>
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Horizontal (mac)-style menus should now work. Horizontal
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menus are activated by setting the 'NSMenuInterfaceStyle' user
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default to 'NSMacintoshInterfaceStyle'.
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</desc>
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<term>Active applications</term>
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<desc>
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Better support for tracking active applications was
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added. Normally a workspace manager should handle this,
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but the GUI library can handle it on its own if it is not
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handled any other way.
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</desc>
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</deflist>
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</section>
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<section>
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<heading>Version 0.10.2</heading>
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<deflist>
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<term>Power Off</term>
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<desc>
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The notification center posts a power off notification before
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sending a terminate: method sent from another app on the assumption
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that the terminate: is from a session manager.
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</desc>
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</deflist>
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</section>
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<section>
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<heading>Version 0.10.1</heading>
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<deflist>
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<term>Sound library</term>
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<desc>
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GNUstep now uses v19 of portaudio for the sound daemon. Version
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v19 hasn't been officially released, but it is still used in
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several distributions (SuSE, etc) as v18 is very old.
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</desc>
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</deflist>
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</section>
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<section>
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<heading>Version 0.10.0</heading>
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<p>
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The interface version of the gui library has changed in
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this release. Applications, libraries and tools that
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wish to use this new version must be recompiled
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(otherwise, they'll use the older version of the library).
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</p>
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<deflist>
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<term>Nib window autopositioning</term>
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<desc>
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Nib loading has been improved to handle auto-positioning
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of windows.
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</desc>
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<term>NSFont</term>
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<desc>
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An ivar was added to NSFont to cache flipped fonts.
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</desc>
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<term>NSApplication</term>
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<desc>
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An ivar was added to track application launch.
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</desc>
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<term>Keyed Encoding</term>
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<desc>
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Work was done in many classes to support keyed
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encoding. It may not be fully implemented in every class, however.
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</desc>
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<term>Backend Versioning</term>
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<desc>
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The GUI library now looks for the backend bundle with the
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corrent interface version. Thus there should not be any
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problems with the GUI using the wrong backend.
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</desc>
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</deflist>
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</section>
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<section>
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<heading>Version 0.9.5</heading>
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<p>
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</p>
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<deflist>
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<term>NSColor colors</term>
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<desc>
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Added new control colors and methods from 10.3 version of Cocoa.
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</desc>
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<term>NSFont methods</term>
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<desc>
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Added new font methods from 10.3 version of Cocoa
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</desc>
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<term>NSApplication -runModalSession</term>
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<desc>
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Behavior of this method was changed. In particular it deviates
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from Cocoa documentation. See the GNUstep GUI documentation for
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specifics.
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</desc>
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<term>Runtime version discovery of library</term>
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<desc>
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A developer can discover the version of the gui library
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that is loaded using the NSBundle methods <code>[[NSBundle
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bundleForLibrary: @"gnustep-gui"] infoDictionary]</code>
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and retrieving the <var>GSBundleVersion</var> key.
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</desc>
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</deflist>
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</section>
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<section>
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<heading>Version 0.9.4</heading>
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<p>
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</p>
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<deflist>
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<term>Interface version change</term>
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<desc>
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The interface version of the gui library has changed in
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this release.
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There is no single reason for this change. Arguably, it
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should have been done long ago. In the future the
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interface version will only change with releases that
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have a new minor version number (that's the second number in the
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release number). Applications, libraries and tools that
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wish to use this new version must be recompiled
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(otherwise, they'll use the older version of the library).
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</desc>
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<term>PPD's removed</term>
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<desc>
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All the PPD's have been removed from the gui library
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into a separate package (gnustep-ppd). There still
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exists a single Generic Postscript Printer PPD which
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should work in many cases for printing using the
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standard <var>lpr</var> interface. In the future, a
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<var>CUPS</var> interface should be available that provides
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all the necessary printer information automatically. If
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you still want use of the PPD's, you must install the
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gnustep-ppd package, although this is not required for
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use of gnustep-gui.
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</desc>
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<term>Printing framework</term>
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<desc>
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The printing framework was generalized to allow for
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various types of native printing systems. The lpr
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system is the only complete one, although CUPS printing
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is in the works. As such, the printing classes were
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revamped to handle this, and the actual system-specific
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code is loaded from a bundle.
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</desc>
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<term>NSScroller, NSScrollView class size change</term>
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<desc>
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A new ivar was added to the NSScroller and NSScrollView classes.
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</desc>
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</deflist>
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</section>
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<section>
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<heading>Version 0.9.3</heading>
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<p>
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</p>
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<deflist>
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<term>Spell checker daemon reimplemented using libaspell</term>
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<desc>
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If the optional library libaspell is found, the spell checker
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will use it (otherwise spell checking will not work).
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</desc>
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<term>New NSComboBox implementation</term>
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<desc>
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NSComboBox and related classes have been re-implemented
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and documented.
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</desc>
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<term>NSToolbar code redone</term>
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<desc>
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A lot of changes where made to the NSToolbar class to
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make it more functional.
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</desc>
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<term>Binary Incompatibilities</term>
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<desc>
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New ivars were added NSTableView, NSView,
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NSSavePanel. Applications that use this class and
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subclasses (e.g. NSOutlineView) may need to be
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recompiled to work properly.
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</desc>
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</deflist>
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</section>
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</chapter>
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</body>
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</gsdoc>
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