Cocoa helping Java
Cocoa helping Java
- Subject: Cocoa helping Java
- From: Carla Lewis <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 22:54:06 -0400
So, I'm writing a program to track customers and inventory. I'm
developing a client in Cocoa for those of us running OSX, and the same
program in Java for those employees still on 9.x or Windows.
You may ask why not JUST Java. Well, they will all eventually move to
OSX and I want to go ahead and fashion my skills as a Cocoa programmer,
but I'm VERY new. I need the Java clients to connect everyone else to
the database. And no, I won't use CodeWarrior.
So, I get to the Java client and start to layout the UI. I realize
there is no UI development tool for Swing in Interface Builder.
Interface Builder is a beautiful UI tool. Why can't you layout a Java
window?
Well, I looked into an uncompiled NIB package an noticed an *.xib file.
This is basically an XML Inline Binary (a XML document) describing every
object, it's layout and other properties.. It sure would be nice if
someone at Apple, or someone with time on their hands made a Drop Target
that you could drop and *.xib file from a NIB package onto and out would
pop a Java UI skeleton. Hmmmm...
I'd tackle the challenge, but that would send me in a totally different
direction (or am I lazy? - no, I just have too much to do).
-Carla
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