Re: Instant Messenger Application ?

[Yen-Ju Chen]

 I just check the source code of fire.
 To me, the user interface is not a big problem.
 It will be redesigned anyway.
 It's hard to maintain the GNUstep and Cocoa in the same source code
 as GNUMail in this case.
 What I'm more interested are how it handles the IM protocol.
 The problem will be the minor Carbon and Objective-C++ code inside.
 An alternative will be the netclasses,
 which is already used in TalkSoup.
 I just wonder how well it can handle UDP besides TCP ?
 Maybe write a new one based on netclasses/TalkSoup will be easlier.

 Yen-Ju


> From: "Chris B. Vetter" <chrisv@web4inc.com>
> To: aperez@student.santarosa.edu
> CC: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Instant Messenger Application ?
> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 18:39:57 -0800
>
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 20:35:30 -0500
> "Yen-Ju Chen" <yjchenx@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > From: "Alex Perez" <aperez@student.santarosa.edu>
> > To: <yjchenx@hotmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: Instant Messenger Application ?
> > Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:24:43 -0800 (PST)
> > How difficult would it really be to make Fire (described and linked by
> > Yen-Ju below) work under GNUStep? Would the interface need to be
> > rebuilt under Gorm? I have access to OS X based Macs and would *love*
> > to have a real GNUStep IM app... What can I do? Their website
> > unfortunately has no screenshots, so I'll have to download it and make
> > some of my own.
>
> You'll have to take a look at Fire's source to see whether it is worth
> the trouble porting it.
>
> First of all, you'll have to re-do the UI, either with Gorm, or
> Renaissance (or try running nib2gmoldel - not sure if/how it works)
> then you'll have to get the code working ;-)
>
> The biggest problem is that Fire is using NSToolbar quite excessively,
> and to a lesser degree, NSDrawer. Both are not available on GNUstep yet.
>
> > What can I (or anyone else for that matter) do?
> > In a more general sense, there are a number of decent (and useful)
>
> Yes, there are.
>
> > Cocoa apps that could probably be (somewhat?) easily ported over to
> > GNUStep.
>
> It is easier to write for GNUstep, then "port" it over to MacOSX, as
> Ludovic has proven.
>
> --
> Chris
>
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