Re: Creating Apple based forms based on MS Windows forms.
Re: Creating Apple based forms based on MS Windows forms.
- Subject: Re: Creating Apple based forms based on MS Windows forms.
- From: George Warner <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 08:06:11 -0700
- Thread-topic: Creating Apple based forms based on MS Windows forms.
on 5/1/08 2:49 PM, Bill Royds at <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 1-May-08, at 15:51 , George Warner wrote:
>
>> if the sample
>> has a web page (<http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/...>) then
>> use the
>> feedback link to let us know (Also, if you would like to hear back
>> from us
>> about your feedback don't forget to include your email address.).
>
> On the sample code page there is a section about porting with links in
> it to sub-topics including User Experience and Porting from Windows.
>
> One thing I would find very useful is samples of converting Microsoft
> Resource (.RC) files to .nib (or .xib). This is the really difficult
> problem of converting software to Mac OS-X from Windows. Code is much
> more straightforward because of commonality of programming languages.
>
> After developing a system with many pages (and form layouts) on
> Windows it would save an immense amount of effort to either have
> Interface Builder read these files, even with a rough conversion, or
> at least give some comparison of the various widgets on Windows to
> corresponding ones with an Apple.
>
> Yes, Apple User Experience guidelines are not the same as Windows, but
> converting an app should not mean starting the design process from
> scratch.
This mirrors the request for a tool to convert Carbon nibs to Cocoa nib (+ a
header file) that would be useful for developers porting Carbon projects to
Cocoa.
Please file enhancement requests (@<http://bugreporter.apple.com>) for these
two tools (the more requests we get the more engineering takes them
seriously; dups are good). Forward me the bug numbers and I'll make sure
that they come to the attention of the right engineers (and our tools
evangelist). TIA.
--
Enjoy,
George Warner,
Schizophrenic Optimization Scientist
Apple Developer Technical Support (DTS)
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