On 1/29/02 9:16 AM, "Jim Beard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to get into doing some Cocoa programming, but I ran into a > snag, I can't find a good resource editor. I don't run System 7 at all, > so I can't run classic mac apps, which is fine with me. But I've only > found two resource editors for OS X. One was 250$ commercial app, the > other a shareware thing that didn't seem to work for me. So thats about > as far as my Cocoa programming has gone. Apple has a lot of sample code > up tho if your interested in learning. I'm looking forward to doing a > bit of work in objective C. By resource editor, you mean like ResEdit? There's not really a need for ResEdit under OS X because OS X's file structure is completely different. Everything is hacked via plists (XML-based config files) now, using the /usr/bin/defaults tool or the GUI Plist editor included with OS X. If I'm on the wrong boat here, correct me, I may be able to help. I don't use Classic ever, really, although I do boot into OS9 to do music stuff, for the time being. I only became an Apple convert after they released OS X 10.1 (ie: the first usable release imo) I've done some Cocoa programming, but am more interested in system-level stuff. Objective C is funky and takes some getting used to (at least to this Java programmer). Project Builder and Interface Builder are just godly development tools. The Java-Cocoa (Cocoa APIs abstracted for use in Java) stuff is great, and you might look into that. Not really a noticeable speed difference between Cocoa and Java-Cocoa. The O`Reilly Cocoa book is pretty crummy, and I've learned almost everything off of Apple's Dev site and also the "Cocoa Dev Central" site (www.cocoadevcentral.com). > On another note, I was wondering if there was enough community support > to start a OS X users group list. I could advertise a little around > school and might be able to drum up a user or two there... I don't really go to user group meetings often, but a list might be cool, though this list is still "UNIX-related" (as opposed to Linux only) too, isn't it? If you're looking for some good OS X related lists, check out http://lists.apple.com . They have good user-level and development-level lists of all sorts there, and at this point in time, they have an excellent signal-to-noise ratio. Jacob
