Renaissance―A Cross-Platform Development Tool for Linux and Mac OS X

摘要

Renaissance is a free development framework, licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, used for easily creating portable user interfaces. It allows the developer to create rich user interfaces by using an open, simple and standard format, XML. When not using Renaissance, Objective-C software developers face the endless task of maintaining the views of their applications for GNUstep with Gorm and for Mac OS X with Interface Builder. As the application evolves and translations are put into place, this can become a major burden, slowing the application development. Luckily, the Renaissance framework innovates by introducing many new concepts to help developers create portable applications efficiently. Among the innovations, are: 1. Portability: the user interface can be reused entirely on platforms where Renaissance has been ported. At this time, it can be reused on top of GNUstep and Apple Cocoa. 2. Localization: there is no need to duplicate the interface files under both GNUstep and Mac OS X. Renaissance integrates perfectly with Localizable.strings files. 3. Intelligent autolayout mechanisms: each user interface component contains intelligence to automate alignments and autoresizing. These are essential especially when working with localizations.