Re: Writing application without Interface Builder
Re: Writing application without Interface Builder
- Subject: Re: Writing application without Interface Builder
- From: Murat Konar <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:32:54 -0700
On Jul 17, 2006, at 7:00 PM, Patrick Hartling wrote:
I am experimenting with writing a Cocoa application without using
Interface
Builder (for portability reasons and to educate myself)...
I wonder if it would be churlish to ask, since you don't want to use
Interface Builder, why bother using Objective-C/Cocoa at all? I mean
you're going to be swimming upstream since much of Cocoa is not
available cross-platform (presumably the other platform is GNUStep),
and any portability advantage you get from bailing on Interface
Builder will surely be dwarfed by the struggle to find and use the
subset of Cocoa that is GNUStep compatible. There are cross-platform
portability solutions available that will give you better cross-
platform parity with less effort... even if the Mac version will not
be as nice.
If you're real goal is the "educating" part, you're succumbing to the
meme that graphical UI builders are somehow a crutch and a barrier to
understanding. That might be the case for other environments, but
Interface Builder is a integral part of Cocoa Application
development, not a shortcut for newbies. Which is to say, if you
think eschewing Interface Builder is a purer path to app development,
you have already missed the point.
_murat
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