GNUstep Weekly Update

Week ending 25 February 2001

gnustep-base (Foundation)


Localisation - French and Italian language files added.
New macros _(), __(), and NSLocalizedStaticString() added for quick and dirty
creation of localisation.
Non-standard localisation keys, YESSTR and NOSTR removed for simplicity.

gdomap - manual interface configuration extended and bugfixed - useful on
a multi-interface machine where you don't want gdomap operating on all the
interfaces (eg. a firewall).
NSUserDefaults - fix for obtaining Languages array from defaults database.
NSString - minor memory leak fixed.
GSXML - new method to get attribute namespace.
Documentation - regenerated with news and install updated.



gnustep-gui (GUI frontend library)


NSDragging - corrected values for drag operation.
NSColorPanel - target-action used on main color well.
NSWindow - bugfix setting drag information.
Documentation - regenerated with news and install updated.



gnustep-xdps (GUI backend library)


Add an ivar to the window structure, for use in giving window manager information
about the window each time it is mapped.



gnustep-xgps (GUI backend library)


Make use of modifier keys while doing drag and drop.
Detect local destination window for drop reliably.
Tidy up dnd code.
Documentation - regenerated with news and install updated.



gnustep-make (Makefiles package)


Set up GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT and GNUSTEP_NETWORK_ROOT controlled from configure.
Support instaallation into non-standard locations using special_prefix=xxx.
Fix which_lib to use -L flag
make opentool only search system directories if no local copy of the tool is found.
Documentation - regenerated with news and install updated.



JIGS (Java Interface for GnuStep)


Documentation updated for use in servlets.
Support for unsigned short data type.