Re: NSToolbar (was Re: Portability/Compatability between GNUstep <---> Cocoa...)

[Gregory John Casamento]

--- "Philippe C.D. Robert" <philippe.robert@gmx.net> wrote:
> Fabien VALLON wrote:
> >> just read that in the GNUstep/Cocoa thread and became curious: What are 
> >>the reasons for this dislike of NSToolbar? I'm a happy Cocoa user and 
> >>I'm just curious.
> > 
> > I bloat NSWindow.
> 
> Well, then stop bloating it!
> 
> ...sorry, could not resist ... :-)
> 
> But to remain on-topic, what exactly is it with NSToolbar which makes it 
> so unwelcome? Personally I think that the NSToolbar is the logic 
> evolution or consequence of handcoded toolbars which by the way were 
> always a part of the NEXTSTEP UI design, think of Mail.app or PB.app.
> 
> -Phil
> -- 
> Philippe C.D. Robert
> http://www.nice.ch/~phip/
> 

There was, in fact, an NSToolbar in OPENSTEP, it was part of a private
framework for NeXT only.   I fired up my turbo recently and did an "nm -a" on
the NeXTApps.framework, to see if my memory served correctly, and got the
following result:

...
19002c9a t -[NSToolBar adjustToolBarToWindow:]
19002b14 t -[NSToolBar buttonAtIndex:]
19002a96 t -[NSToolBar buttonWithName:]
19003230 t -[NSToolBar localizedHelpString:]
19002986 t -[NSToolBar setSnapToButtons:]
19002ba8 t -[NSToolBar toolBarAction:]
19002a3c t -[NSToolBar validateToolBarButton:]
190029ca t -[NSToolBar validateToolBar]
190028b6 t -[NSToolBar viewWillMoveToWindow:]
...

So, there indeed was an NSToolbar in OPENSTEP, but it was not available to you
and me.   I imagine that there were also corresponding changes in NSWindow for
the view as well, but I don't know for sure.

Thanks, GJC

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