Re: some general questions regarding gnustep-gui programming

[Fred Morcos]

I guess the Gorm files part is up to you...

For signals of changed preferences look at the NSNotificationCenter
documentation... Use the [[NSNotificationCenter] defaultCenter]
instance...

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Sebastian Reitenbach
<sebastia@l00-bugdead-prods.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've started with GUI programming, and now after a while I have some
> questions, where I did not found an easy answer.
>
> I created a little application in PC and Gorm, which now just a main window,
> and a PreferencesController. I have two Interfaces one for the main
> application, and one for the PreferencesController.
>
> I got the PreferencesController to work so that when I change there sth. the
> Default is changed persistently too, so thats fine. My immediate question
> here is just, how do I get sth. in the main window updated immediately, when
> I change sth. in the PreferencesController.
> A pointer to some example source, to what look for, would be fine enough I
> think. A pointer to what to look for in the source, would be great, The
> basics of how do I get a PreferencesController to work I took from
> SimpleAgenda, but I did not found sth. yet, that helped me to understand how
> that could work.
> Also in SimpleAgenda, the Preferences controllers window is just only a
> NSPanel, whereas I use a NSWindow. Both work fine, I see no obvious
> differences, so here is a second question, what are reasons to choose
> NSWindow, or  NSPanel to implement any window besides the main app window?
>
> Also in SimpleAgenda, but in other apps too, I've seen, they use
> multiple .gorm interfaces that then build the complete application. Therefore
> the reason that I also created a second .gorm interface for the
> PreferencesController window. On the other side, I've seen, I could also have
> done everything with one .gorm interface. So I also wonder here what could be
> reasons to choose one or the other way?
>
> cheers
> Sebastian
>
>
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