Re: Alternative to Interface Builder?
Re: Alternative to Interface Builder?
- Subject: Re: Alternative to Interface Builder?
- From: Matt Gemmell <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 23:16:47 +0100
On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 10:35 pm, Jeff Harrell wrote:
The procedure for connecting a thing to its controller is especially
tedious.
Control-dragging from this box to that box is especially tedious? Or
is there more to the process that I'm blissfully ignorant of?
I've sometimes thought that the control-dragging can be tedious. What
I'd like is a keyboard shortcut which I can trigger when I've selected
an item, which would display an outline view of the Nib (the same as
the outline view in the Instances tab of the Nib's window). This could
either focus into the Instances tab and switch to outline view, or
could just duplicate the outline view in a dialog.
I can then keyboard-navigate through the hierarchy to select my target
object, and press return - which would then focus me into the
inspector, ready to keyboard-navigate to the appropriate target or
outlet, and again press return to make the connection. I'd find that
really handy.
IB is brilliant, no question about it. I've never seen anything else
like it, and it's one of the greatest strengths of the OS X development
environment for me. Still room for a few improvements here and there
nevertheless. :)
Cheers,
-Matt
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Matt Gemmell
Scotland Software
http://www.scotlandsoftware.com/
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