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Re: Programatically Designing a GUI
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Re: Programatically Designing a GUI


  • Subject: Re: Programatically Designing a GUI
  • From: Eric Peyton <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 15:22:50 -0500

Yes, most definitely. I have created many a program that programmatically created it's windows.

I suggest using IB for as much as possible, (even use it to put views together, etc.), and then instantiate a window, stick the controls in to the window, move them around, etc.

It makes things like tab orders, setting all of those accessors, etc. for more difficult, but there are definitely times when you may find it easier to build the window yourself.

But it is far more time consuming and difficult.

May I ask - why do you think you need to be able to do this? What is IB not providing that you think you need to be able to do the work you want to do?

eric

On Saturday, August 4, 2001, at 02:14 PM, David Lee wrote:

Evening All,
I realise that NIB files and the integration of Project Builder and Interface Builder makes Cocoa GUI development relatively straightforward, but say I wanted to create an application that had a Aqua GUI but used no NIB files whatsoever, could it all be done programatically like in the days before we had NIB files?

David Lee
Software Engineering Student - University of the West of England UWE), UK.

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