Re: GNUstep on windows

[Adrian Robert]

Hi,

>  also started writing some guides to using GNUstep. What I've written
> so far can be found at:
> http://members.optusnet.com.au/~smokey27/objc.pdf

This looks very nice!  Have you seen:

http://gnustep.org/resources/documentation/Developer/Base/ 
ProgrammingManual/manual_toc.html

It might be more efficient to improve / update this (and perhaps also  
make it more visible to downloaders / users of GNUstep) than starting  
fresh.  On the other hand, this document is rather long, and perhaps  
you are shooting for a shorter document just on the basics.  This  
would be a good addition, assuming there aren't already references  
covering this at http://gnustep.org/developers/documentation.html .


> http://members.optusnet.com.au/~smokey27/appkit.pdf

This is a good start, and the GNUstep equivalent here is pretty sparse:

http://gnustep.org/resources/documentation/Developer/Gui/ 
ProgrammingManual/manual_toc.html

Contributions on this would be more than welcome.  However the  
question is what the focus should be.  My impression is that there  
are lots of tutorials from Apple and elsewhere (http://gnustep.made- 
it.com/GSPT/xml/Tutorial_en.html) on basic use of IB / Gorm to build  
simple GUIs, but much fewer on the actual nuts and bolts of using the  
AppKit libraries, which you need to know to get beyond toy apps.  I'm  
talking about Views, drawing, controllers, responder chain, matrixes,  
standard and clever delegation strategies, and so on.  Apple has a  
lot of material here, but it tends to be divided up piecemeal and  
also sometimes mixed in with Apple-specific stuff.  This state is  
livable, but it would be nice to have a general GNUstep intro to  
using the AppKit library.