Re: Adding a gui
Re: Adding a gui
- Subject: Re: Adding a gui
- From: Hamish Allan <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 21:18:36 +0100
Hi Michael,
From my limited experience I would say that it is better to write the
GUI sooner rather than later. If you write the functionality first,
there is a danger that the GUI will be designed simply to project the
harnesses you have used to test that functionality. The GUI is the most
important thing from your users' point of view, so you should design it
first, and let it inform the rest of your program's design.
Luckily you can put together a GUI in Interface Builder in no time at
all, automatically create code for a controller class, and then just
start writing event-driven code a piece at a time! I learned using a
book (Building Cocoa Applications from O'Reilly) but there are plenty
of web tutorials out there too (look at the O'Reilly web site, for
instance).
Best of luck,
Hamish
On May 10, 2004, at 19:55, Michael Curtis wrote:
Hi,
I have written my first obj-c program. I hesitate to say cocoa app as I
am not sure it has any cocoa in it! It is a very basic darts scorer, 2
players, askes if you want to start on 301 or 501, and their totals
being subtracted each turn until one reaches 0.
It was just a simple start for me to experiment with objects and loops
etc.
At the moment the output just scrolls down the terminal and looks
horrible, but from my point of view is a 100% success :-)
How easy would it be to add a gui that could at least look decent or am
I jumping the gun? As I am still very new to this would I be better to
continue to right the code and have it look horrible and worry about
the gui later or would this be a good point to add the gui even though
I don't have all the code ready, but I do know how I would like the gui
to look?
Any help most welcome.
Best wishes
Michael
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