Re: Alternative to Interface Builder?
Re: Alternative to Interface Builder?
- Subject: Re: Alternative to Interface Builder?
- From: Danny Swarzman <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:05:28 -0700
Brilliant and brillianter. Gee, I didn't know.
In the old days of ResEdit, if I wanted to put a text box into a window, I
just had to drag one thing and label it. That was all the mouse work.
Now, I do that. Next I add an outlet in another window. Then I click in the
main nib window to get the right display, make sure that I have my
destination pane on the screen and not covered, and option drag from the
nib window into my pane. Then I scroll in the info window to the new outlet
that I created and click connect.
What I miss is the ability to get all the information about a window in one
place where I can see it all without interacting with the computer. I admit
that when you had to give things numbers instead of name it was a little
tedious to need to add a line to a header file. But with Cocoa, you still
need to coordinate the thing with a header file - just use names instead of
numbers.
I realize that some people are more comfortable with a mouse than I am. But
why does this have to be one size fits all?
Thanks, Hasan, for the tip about Renaissance. I'll check that out.
- Danny Swarzman
At 15:16 -0700 6/16/03, Matt Gemmell wrote:
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On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 10:35 pm, Jeff Harrell wrote:
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>> The procedure for connecting a thing to its controller is especially
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>> tedious.
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> Control-dragging from this box to that box is especially tedious? Or
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> is there more to the process that I'm blissfully ignorant of?
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I've sometimes thought that the control-dragging can be tedious. What
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I'd like is a keyboard shortcut which I can trigger when I've selected
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an item, which would display an outline view of the Nib (the same as
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the outline view in the Instances tab of the Nib's window). This could
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either focus into the Instances tab and switch to outline view, or
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could just duplicate the outline view in a dialog.
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I can then keyboard-navigate through the hierarchy to select my target
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object, and press return - which would then focus me into the
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inspector, ready to keyboard-navigate to the appropriate target or
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outlet, and again press return to make the connection. I'd find that
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really handy.
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IB is brilliant, no question about it. I've never seen anything else
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like it, and it's one of the greatest strengths of the OS X development
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environment for me. Still room for a few improvements here and there
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nevertheless. :)
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Cheers,
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-Matt
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Matt Gemmell
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Scotland Software
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http://www.scotlandsoftware.com/
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