> Writing your GUI in code is a useful and educational exercise. But it
> will only be useful and educational if you do it *after* you are
> already proficient with the standard way of doing things. Get good
> with the basics (which means using nibs), and once you're comfortable
> with that, you'll
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:01 AM, vinai wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Thanks for your feedback. I AM coming from a non-Cocoa background, and I was
> hoping to keep some picture of how the GUI was interacting with my code at a
> fairly low level.
Crawl before you walk, walk before you run.
Writing you
Hi All,
Thanks for your feedback. I AM coming from a non-Cocoa background, and I was
hoping to keep some picture of how the GUI was interacting with my code at a
fairly low level.
My previous experience is with an X11+motif application that did real-time data
acquisition from an A/D card, an
Remember that Interface Builder does not generate code! It saves a
representation of the interface and its associated objects to a nib
file which is read at runtime. Generating your interface by hand will
not tell you what's going on behind the scenes, and IB is much more
appropriate than c
hanks
--- On Thu, 3/12/09, I. Savant wrote:
From: I. Savant
Subject: Re: code for drawing an NSTextField to a panel window ...
To: for_use...@yahoo.com
Cc: Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com
Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009, 12:00 PM
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:11 PM, vinai
wrote:
where rawButtonRect is an N
On Mar 12, 2009, at 4:41 PM, vinai wrote:
The complete code for the object is attached. I guess I am still
more than a little perplexed why the window itself is being drawn
fine, but I can't get any elements (like the text field) drawn to
the panel view.
Glancing at your code, I don't ha
gt; Subject: Re: code for drawing an NSTextField to a panel window ...
> To: for_use...@yahoo.com
> Cc: Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com
> Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009, 12:00 PM
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:11 PM, vinai
> wrote:
>
> > where rawButtonRect is an NSRect, contectR
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:11 PM, vinai wrote:
> where rawButtonRect is an NSRect, contectRect defines the panel window I am
> trying to draw to, and rawTextField is of * NSTextField type. mainPanelView
> is the view for the mainPanel window, and rawTextField is just one of the
> subviews I a
