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[Germán Arias]

Hi

El mié, 10-06-2015 a las 15:09 +0200, Stéphanie DECOLIE escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> I use gnustep on win2k and WinXP to teach objective-c. I have downloaded some 
> examples and i have tried to build it with make instruction on gnustep 
> console. The applications have been build successfuly, but when i try to 
> execute it, no window appear. The applications executed are not visible but 
> are visible on the windows proccess manager.
> 
> How do i do to see the executable application builded when i launch them?
> 
> Thank you to help me.
> 

First be aware that GNUstep is a free implementation of Cocoa/OpenStep
APIs. So this mean that an application can consist only on a menu
(displayed at top bar as in Mac). If the developer wants his application
be usable with other styles, like the in-window menu on Windows, he
should provide support for that style. Many of the applications on
examples package don't have support for the in-window menu style (for
example GSTest). Others works perfectly on Windows, like Ink and
PowerPaint (at least with recent versions of gnustep libraries and
winuxtheme). Assuming you are using the WinUXTheme, If an app not
display initially a window, there will not place to put the menu and you
will not see anything. The app is running, but you can't see it. So
there are two solutions:

1) Add support for in-window menu style in that app. And
2) Launch the application with the GNUstep theme, this is (for example):

openapp GSTest -GSTheme GNUstep

This will display the vertical menu (NextStep style).

Hope this help.

Germán