A. Change Log

A.1 15/5/2006

* Minor fixups in controls.texi

A.2 8/5/2006

* Reorganised and rewrote sections of eventhandling.texi that were incorrect or incomplete.

A.3 7/5/2006

* Combined drawing.texi and theviewconcept.texi into a super chapter about views. theviewconcept just needs a couple of pointer sections to eventhandling and dataexchange for completeness. drawing.texi has been factored out of the build process, but will be kept around until all its information has been merged into the theviewconcept. * More completed information about imageviews. * DEPRECATED: class quick reference has been factored out of the build process. The information in this chapter will be merged into the rest of the guide or discarded. * Outline Views now made more complete * Minor fixup in dataexchange.texi (constructing a pasteboard). * TODO: basicconcepts.texi either to be expanded, removed or changed. I'm in two minds as whether to keep this one along. * TODO: Proofread for a release version, cleanup any remaining or incomplete chapters (or hold back from release). I think this changelog shouldn't be in the build process, but it helps nonetheless.

A.4 28/4/2006

* Completed more important information that appears in dataexchange.texi (this should be "feature" complete now) * Minor additions to outlineviews.texi (this need completing before a release).

A.5 24/4/2006

* Serious reorganisation and correction of the view concept chapter. It will be combined with the drawing in views chapter, which needs to be elaborated on. * Grammatical fixups in browsers.texi * TODO: basicconcepts.texti: Shift all important concepts such as delegates, outlets/actions, target/actions, data sources and the nature of Objective-C into this file for a good thorough introduction to what is the AppKit.

A.6 19/4/2006

* gnustepapplication.texi: More information on interface file generation.

A.7 17/4/2006

* controls.texi minor grammatical fixups. * Grammatical and spelling fixups in tableviews.texi * Interface file and makefile description in guide to building a first application in gnustepapplications.texi

A.8 2/4/2006

* Updated README with some project information. * Migrated from cvs to svn at project page (http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gnustep-docs)

A.9 28/3/2006

* Some spelling corrections and grammatical fixups (thanks to Damien Pollet)

A.10 25/3/2006

* Added outline views section * Documented some of the features of cell classes. * Some anchor/node fixes. Some linefeed/carriage return issues looked at. * Documented some more matrix methods (selection and adding/removing columns/rows).

A.11 23/3/2006

* Provided descriptions of most simple available controls * Detailed the control notifications and delegate protocol * Added NSComboBox to the quick reference with details on its data source methods.

A.12 19/3/2006

* Added tableview notifications information * Added basic concepts chapter.

A.13 6/3/2006

* Added warranty disclaimers * Added beginning of a first gnustep application tutorial

A.14 2/3/2006

* Added quick-reference information for NSBrowserDelegate

A.15 15/2/2006

* Added "Images and Imageviews" section with an introduction to various classes.

* Added commented licence headers

* Fixed up stupid copyright insertion problem arising from old versions of texi.

* Some additions of information to "Drawing in Views"

A.16 6/2/2006

* Extensive reworking of "Event Handling"

* Filled out information on data exchange (services still incomplete)

A.17 28/1/2006

* Added a section on data exchange, which will include information on how to implement copying and pasting, drag and drop and service applications.

* Filled out information on the NSTableViewDelegate informal protocol.

A.18 16/1/2006

* Extended NSMatrix chapter with more information

* Tried to better clarify the concepts and role of Gorm in interfacefiles.texi

* Moved data source table out of tableview's into "Quick Reference".

* Various additions across the board to different modules

* Some spelling fixes.

* Browsers stub

A.19 2/1/2006

* Added NSMatrix chapter.

* Added a concept index, with most of the concepts and the like added into it.

* Information about changing the frame rectangle and bounds rectangle in views.

* Considerable reorganisation and modification of "The view concept" chapter.

* "Event handling" chapter added (stub)

* Controls chapter now contains brief information on matrices, tableviews, outlineviews and browser controls

* Added a "Quick Reference" section for classes and commonly used methods. Very sparse.

* Various corrections and minor additions.

TODO: Fix spelling errors, fill out information on browser and outlineviews, fill chapter on event handling, index more concepts, fill out quick reference and shift table view delegate information into quick reference. Longterm TODO: Check for document conformity and consistency and integrity and add images and examples to important/difficult to understand chapters and appendices

A.20 26/12/2005

* Added a table about tableview data sources, listing some of the methods and some descriptions of them (and what they're supposed to do).

* Added a table of the sorts of bezier path operations (such as line to, move to, etc) that can be performed.

* Information about the currentPoint and fill/clip/stroke operations that can be performed with bezier paths.

* Reorganised section structure in "Drawing in Views" chapter.

* Added and filled out a section on NSControl, including NSButton and NSTextField.

* Minor additions to interfacefiles.texi that better explain the importance of Gorm and actions/outlets.

A.21 18/12/2005

* Added a section on TableView's, with information regarding data sources and table columns. Includes a stub for delegates and how to setup table views.

* Added some information on using NSBezierPath to draw in a view. This needs elaboration.

A.22 Previous to the 18/12/2005:

* I've written a AppKit documenation manual, that sets out to describe how to use various parts of gnustep-gui aka the AppKit. Some preliminary work has cropped up explaining basic concepts, such as views, how to use Gorm and what it's concepts mean, etc. Started in late November 2005.

* Changes recommended on mailing list after posting a preliminary version.