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- Fixed bug in icon chooser dialog that could cause a segmentation fault in some cases (Pascal Hofstee <caelian@gmail.com>) - Fixed crash in asm code in wrlib, with new versions of gcc. - Fixed bug in the x86_PseudoColor_32_to_8() function which incorrectly used the r, g, b fields in the conversion. - Fixed x86 ASM code in wrlib to work on 64 bit architectures. - Fixed the focus flicker seen with some apps (notably gtk2) (Alexey Spiridonov <snarkmaster@gmail.com>) - Fixed all crashing bugs that were generated by wmaker starting with the WMState file missing. - Added NetWM support (a modified version of the patch originaly written by Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>) - Applied patch to enhance the Virtual Desktop behaviour, and to integrate it with the NetWM code (Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>) - Applied a few xinerama and placement fixes (Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>) - Fixed memory leak in dock code. - Fixed and enhanced the text wrapping in WINGs. - Fixed the layout of some elements in WPrefs.app - Added workaround for aplications that don't set the required hints on the client leader window, but they set them on normal windows (observer with KDE 3.3.0 mainly). This will allow these apps to get an appicon again. (they should be fixed still) - Added workaround for applications that do not set a command with XSetCommand(), but instead they set the _NET_WM_PID property. This works with operating systems that offer a /proc interface similar to what linux has. (This also is to fix problems with KDE 3.3.0 apps, but not only them). - Fixed bug with autostart and exit scripts not being executed if user GNUstep path was different from ~/GNUstep (when setting GNUSTEP_USER_ROOT) - Added utf8 support in WINGs (removed old X core font code) - Added utility to convert old font names to new font names in style files
WINGs - WINGs Is Not GNUstep
by
Alfredo Kengi Kojima
kojima@windowmaker.org
WINGs is a small widget set with the N*XTSTEP look and feel. It's API
is inspired in OpenStep and it's implementation borrows some ideas
from Tk. It has a reasonable set of widgets, sufficient for building
small applications (like a CDPlayer or hacking something like rxvt). It
also has other functions that are usefull for applications, like a
User Defaults alike configuration manager and a notification system.
The library is limited and it's design is a little sloppy,
so it's not intended to build large or complex applications, like
anything more complex than a CDPlayer. GNUstep should be used for such
applications.
Since WINGs is written in C and is sort of low-level it is small
and faster than say, Motif or even Athena. Knowing Xlib will help you to
workaround some of it's limitations, although you'll probably be able to
write something like a trivial tic-tac-toe game without knowing much Xlib.
Some of it's functions are designed to support the Window Maker window
manager (see http://windowmaker.org) In fact, it's primary role is to
support Window Maker. All other uses of it are just an added bonus.
It will help you to understand the API if you read the ApplicationKit
reference manual, distributed as a PDF by Apple. The function names,
structs and most of the intrinsics are very close to OpenStep classes.
Internationalization:
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Change ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMGLOBAL to set the desired font set and
set MultiByteText = YES; to enable support for multibyte text.
Widgets provided by WINGs:
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- button (command button, radio, switch etc. - all buttons defined in OpenStep)
- label
- textfield
- frame
- window
- popup menu button
- scroller
- selection list
- browser
- slider
- scrollable view
- color well
- split view
- tabbed view
- progress indicator
- selection (make pasteboard like?)
- drag&drop
- input box
- file panel
- color panel
- alert panel
- font panel
If you think you can code the following, please do. They are needed by
WPrefs.app, but the number of other things I have to do is huge.
- input method support (XIM). I have no idea of how to code it. People who use
different characters than ASCII will have trouble editing menus without it...
Wish list: (I don't have the know-how or time to do them)
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- text (with support for RTF)
- matrix (like NSMatrix)
- font manager (like NSFontManager)
- finish other wigets
- optimize list scrolling (XCopyArea() the area that's already drawn)
- InterfaceMaker?
- use XSetWMName and XSetWMIconName for the window/icon title setting.
This requires transforming the received text to a text property with
the proper encoding.
Copyright
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WINGs is copyright (c) Alfredo K. Kojima and is licensed through the GNU
Library General Public License (LGPL).