Weekly Update

Week ending 14 January 2001



gstep-base (Foundation)


NSAttributedString - rename concrete class and add bugfixes for =
initialising
from empty attributed strings and replacing characters. Optimise =
-length method.
NSValue - reorganize concrete classes, encode in archives as =
abstract class,
add +valueWithRange: and related methods
NSArray - reorganise concrete classes for consistency and =
efficiency.
NSDictionary - rename concrete class for consistency.
Unicode - fix in recognition of default character set.
FFCALL - now enabled by default if the libraries are =
available.
GSMime - bugfix parsing large documents from http1.1 servers
GSXML - retain/release problem in modifying parse trees.



gstep-gui (GUI frontend library)


GSTextStorage - bugfixes matching those in NSAttributedString in =
base library.
NSTextView - deletion methods tidied up.
NSApplication - improvements to exception handler.
NSColor - bugfix in color scheme conversion.
NSColorPanel - improve color picker interactions.
NSScroller - break retain cycle.
NSAffineTransform - new method to permit backend optimisation.
NSLayoutManager - some work on glyph storage.
NSPageLayout - tidied a little.
NSPrintOperaation - tidied a little.



gstep-xdps (GUI backend library)


Fixes for coordinate transformation matrices.



gstep-xgps (GUI backend library)


Fixes error in color use in xrHSBToPixel()
Optimise use of NSAffineTransform to minimise creation/destruction =
of
objects and use new (faster) api from frontend.




gstep-make (Makefiles package)


Support for making RPMs added
Support for automatically building list of files for installation =
in an rpm
Improved building of documentation