ANNOUNCE: Renaissance 0.8.0
ANNOUNCE: Renaissance 0.8.0
- Subject: ANNOUNCE: Renaissance 0.8.0
- From: Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 21:17:09 +0100
I forward this mail posted originally to email@hidden
because it should be of interest for people looking for a way of
designing an autolayouted interface or an interface described in a
portable XML format. Renaissance is released under the Lesser GPL
(short LGPL, see:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html ) allowing to use it in closed
source and commercial applications. For questions please mail to Nicola
Pero (nicola (at) brainstorm dot co dot uk) the creator of this
software. He's not subscribed to this list.
forwarded message:
Von: Nicola Pero <email@hidden>
Datum: Sa, 29. Nov 2003 03:29:54 Europe/Berlin
An: email@hidden
Betreff: ANNOUNCE: Renaissance 0.8.0
I am very excited to announce the 0.8.0 release of Renaissance. You can
find it at -
http://www.gnustep.it/Renaissance/Download.html
(NB: yes, I spent a day redesigning the web site).
* What is Renaissance ?
GNUstep Renaissance is free software (GNU LGPL), and part of the GNUstep
project. It is a development framework which runs on top of the GNUstep
libraries. It also works on top of the Apple OSX Cocoa libraries,
providing an opaque layer to write portable applications.
In short, GNUstep Renaissance allows you to describe your user
interfaces
(that is, the windows in your application, and the buttons, boxes,
textfields, etc in the windows) in simple and intuitive XML files, using
an open, standard format describing the logic of the interface. GNUstep
Renaissance can then, at run time, generate the user interfaces (using
the
native host OpenStep-like libraries) by reading the XML files. The
connections between the objects created from the XML files, and the
other
objects in the application are done via outlets (as traditionally in
OpenStep); a new quick and intuitive syntax has been developed to make
creating outlets as easy as possible.
You find more information on Renaissance at
http://www.gnustep.it/Renaissance.
* What is new in this release ?
This release includes quite a lot of improvements. New tags were added
--
<splitView>, <secureTextField>, <browser>, <tableView>, <tableColumn>
and
<outlineView> tags; with those tags, almost all standard widgets and
controls should be available in Renaissance. Some existing tags have
been
enhanced; memory leaks have been fixed; the connectors code was
reorganized, and GSMarkupApplicationMain() was added. There are also
new
examples and other minor enhancements.
* Authors
Renaissance was written by Nicola Pero <email@hidden>.
Special thanks for helping with this release to Pete French, David
Wetzel,
Rodolfo W. Zitellini, David Ayers, and to everyone else having reported
bugs and suggested improvements.
* Feeback
Nicola Pero (<email@hidden>, <email@hidden>) will be
happy to hear your comments, suggestions, problems, bug reports, and
help
whenever he can!
* What's going to happen in next releases ?
We need more documentation. We need the support for fixed subview
layout
to be finished and tested. And we need a GUI builder!
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