Re: Creating and App menu from Scratch
Re: Creating and App menu from Scratch
- Subject: Re: Creating and App menu from Scratch
- From: Bill Royds <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:53:57 -0400
On 14-Jul-08, at 01:38 , Bill Bumgarner <email@hidden wrote:
Your application's menu isn't that big of a deal, but your
application's integration with Mac OS X is a very big deal and that
is most of the battle of doing "nib less" development. It is much
more than just populating the main menu. Specifically, the
application wrapper -- the .app -- typically contains all kinds of
metadata that is used by Mac OS X to integrate the application into
the system, both from the Finder's perspective and when the
application is run.
Are there any good tools for porting Application menus and forms from
other windowing systems (such as MS Windows or X or even Carbon) to
Cocoa nibs? I have a number of applications that I would like to port,
but redesigning the form or menu layout completely seems to be rather
pointless. I am quite willing to rewrite all the code that interacts
with the forms or menus, but I am not a graphic designer so form
layout is better left to experts who have already done it.
All I really want is a tool that will put objects without any
connections or code on a form or menu by parsing a MS .RC file, for
example
Being able to do this would lead to an large increase in the number of
Macintosh applications available.
Bill Royds
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