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== Features ==
 
== Features ==
  
* user interface elements (table views, browsers, matrices, scroll views)
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* User interface elements: table views, browsers, matrices, scroll views, ...
* graphics (WYSIWYG, postscript-like graphics, bezier paths, image handling with multiple representations, graphical contextes)
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* Graphics: WYSIWYG, Postscript-like graphics, Bezier paths, image handling with multiple representations, graphical contextes
* [[Colors|color management]] (calibrated vs. device colors; CMYK, RGB, HSB, gray and named color representations; alpha transparency)
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* [[Colors|Color management]]: calibrated vs. device colors, CMYK, RGB, HSB, gray and named color representations, alpha transparency
 
* [[Text]] system features: rich text format, text attachements, layout manager, typesetter, rules, paragraph styles, font management, [[Spell checking|spell checking]]
 
* [[Text]] system features: rich text format, text attachements, layout manager, typesetter, rules, paragraph styles, font management, [[Spell checking|spell checking]]
* [[Document architecture|document management]]
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* [[Document architecture|Document management]]
* [[Printing|printing features]]: print operations, print panel and page layout
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* [[Printing|Printing features]]: print operations, print panel and page layout
* help manager
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* Help manager
* [[Pasteboard|pasteboard]] (aka clip board) services
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* [[Pasteboard|Pasteboard]] (a.k.a. clip board) services
* [[Spell checking|spell checker]]
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* [[Spell checking|Spell checker]]
* [[Workspace|workspace]] bindings for applications
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* [[Workspace|Workspace]] bindings for applications
 
* [[Drag and drop]] operations
 
* [[Drag and drop]] operations
* [[Application services|services]] sharing among applications
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* [[Application services|Services]] shared among applications
  
 
== Notes and Snippets ==
 
== Notes and Snippets ==

Revision as of 17:40, 4 September 2006

The GNUstep GUI Library is a library of objects useful for writing graphical applications. For example, it includes classes for drawing and manipulating graphics objects on the screen: windows, menus, buttons, sliders, text fields, and events. There are also many classes that offer operating-system-independent interfaces to images, cursors, colors, fonts, pasteboards, printing. There are also workspace support classes such as data links, open/save panels, context-dependent help, spell checking.

It provides functionality that aims to implement the `AppKit' portion of the OpenStep standard. However the implementation has been written to take advantage of GNUstep enhancements wherever possible.

The GNUstep GUI Library is divided into a front and back-end. The front-end contains the majority of implementation, but leaves out the low-level drawing and event code. Different back-ends will make GNUstep available on various platforms. The default GNU back-end currently runs on top of the X Window System and uses only Xlib calls for graphics. Another backend uses a Display Postscript Server for graphics. Much work will be saved by this clean separation between front and back-end, because it allows different platforms to share the large amount of front-end code. Documentation for how the individual backends work is coverered in a separate document.

You can find the automatically generated API documentation here.

Features

  • User interface elements: table views, browsers, matrices, scroll views, ...
  • Graphics: WYSIWYG, Postscript-like graphics, Bezier paths, image handling with multiple representations, graphical contextes
  • Color management: calibrated vs. device colors, CMYK, RGB, HSB, gray and named color representations, alpha transparency
  • Text system features: rich text format, text attachements, layout manager, typesetter, rules, paragraph styles, font management, spell checking
  • Document management
  • Printing features: print operations, print panel and page layout
  • Help manager
  • Pasteboard (a.k.a. clip board) services
  • Spell checker
  • Workspace bindings for applications
  • Drag and drop operations
  • Services shared among applications

Notes and Snippets

Class Reference Protocol Reference