Re: Proposition for a Gorm feature Was: Gorm too complex ?

[Pascal Bourguignon]

> From: "Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf" <Lars.Sonchocky-Helldorf@bbdo-interone.de>
> Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 21:34:29 +0100
> 
> No! Why: because hardcoded Interfaces might look ugly or be rendered 
> unusuable on different Plattforms (that is in this case GNUstep and Cocoa) 
> I can show you some screenshots of GWorkspace on Cocoa that look really 
> ugly (no Mac User would accept this). What you can do in such a situation 
> is ifdefing the geometrics or have a .nib file for Cocoa and a .gorm or 
> .gmodel for GNUstep. Guess which solution is easier maintainable. (even if 
> converting nibs is a pain in the ass)
> 
> Greetings, Lars

He he ! Right. 

But  that's  one  more  problem  you have  with  InterfaceBuilder  and
Gorm. They store fixed coordinates in their NIB or gorm files.

On the other hand, in my "hardcoded" interfaces, I make liberal use of
sizeToFit: and other automatic layout techniques.

In the  end, it's less work because  I don't have to  do anything just
because some traducer added a  new localized strings file. As you have
it currently  with Gorm  and Interface builder,  you need to  tune the
interface even in that case. Too much work for me.



> Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
>
> Now suggestion:
> 
> Instead of writting archives of  user interface objects, why not write
> Objective-C source code,  that would build this user  interface net of
> objects instead of unarchiving them.

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