Re: Rethinking my approach; rather overwhelmed.
Re: Rethinking my approach; rather overwhelmed.
- Subject: Re: Rethinking my approach; rather overwhelmed.
- From: Rush Manbert <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:07:24 -0700
Sorry Josh, I had not read your initial "Cocoa, C++, Keyboard input
and Timers" post. I assumed you were just a Mac newbie and wasn't
aware of your "multitude of obstacles".
Maybe you can use a cross-platform GUI toolkit? There is wxWidgets (http://www.wxwidgets.org/
), FLTK (http://www.fltk.org/), and probably more. I have not used any
of them, so can't offer any advice, but their approach might make it
easier to develop your UI.
You might also consider using WebKit for your Mac UI. Then the actual
UI code could be developed in HTML/JavaScript. (You would use the
JavaScript/Cocoa bindings to interact with the application.) You still
need to get the WebKit control up in a window though, so you might
still need to use IB. But maybe there's a Carbon way to do something
that simple? (I haven't used Carbon either.)
- Rush
On Jun 17, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
Hi Rush,
Thanks for the advice. Being visually impaired, I haven't been able
to find *ANY* up-to-date Cocoa/Objective C books in an accessible
format. I have a couple of books that were written around 2002-ish,
but have been hesitant to delve into those before being able to
determine how much of what they teach is no longer applicable. The
other drawback to these books is they rely heavily on Interface
Builder, which Apple hasn't yet made accessible with their VoiceOver
technology. That shuts me out of GUI development with IB, forcing
me to rely on using code for what little GUI I do need, something
not covered in these books either. I do have some sample code for
building a GUI, and I plan to draw from it, but seems exceptionally
complex.
As you can see, I have a multitude of obstacles to work through. :)
And, you know, if anyone is out there who would like to take me
under their wing for a few days off list and try to get me up to
speed, I'd not object. LOL.
Thanks again to all who have been very helpful so far.
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