Re: GUI without IB
Re: GUI without IB
- Subject: Re: GUI without IB
- From: Shawn Erickson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 07:23:00 -0700
On Jun 7, 2004, at 7:04 AM, email@hidden wrote:
Hi!
I'd like to write a simple application that uses a configuration file
to create the gui.
Let imagine that the application consists just in an arbitary number of
buttons that is in a .conf file.
I can't find anything on the developer.apple.com or the whole web. Is
it
impossible ? Should I use always the Interface Builder? should I change
to Carbon ?
Any help will be appreciated.
Look at the documentation for NSView and the related view programming
topics. You can create things programatically you just have to
understand how the views and related items work.
In a nut shell you create a window get its content view and add
sub-views to it of various types (plane views, controls, etc.) nested
as needed. You will need to understand view corridinates, frames,
bounds, and how to correctly set the automatic resize flags, etc. The
topics linked off of the NSView API docs should get you going on this.
One thing to keep in mind the inheritance hierarchy in AppKit classes
so when looking at the API documents always make sure you look at the
super class (and up the chain) to insure you know what methods are
truly supported.
-Shawn
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