Re: Native widgets (was: Re: So, honestly, is GNUStep a viable development option?)

[Wolfgang Lux]

Nicolas Roard wrote:

> It's _far_ from knocking the whole design -- the file dialogs in
> GNUstep are pretty simple, api-wise and functionality-wise: you just
> want to call it, and get a list of files. The only advanced feature (a
> very cool one, mind you) is rarely used if ever (accessory views).
> Therefore it should be easy to support native file dialogs, and I put
> forward in my previous emails the advantages of doing so.

Err, sorry, but you probably should have a closer look at the API
before saying such things. Getting just a file or a list of files
may be sufficient for simple applications, but there are some more
advanced uses of the panels, e.g., setting options for a particular
file type if the file format supports variants (e.g., compression
algorithm for TIFF files), which is commonly selected with some
widgets in an accessory view. The panels also support a few useful
delegate methods (e.g., controlling the visibility of filenames).
In addition, there is also the treatsFilePackagesAsDirectories
attribute (which is poorly supported in GNUstep at the moment,
though).

Wolfgang