On Friday, July 5, 2002, at 05:23 PM, Warren Pollans wrote:
> Hello, > > I'm looking for a starting point for learning/programming the mac gui - > to play with with on my 14" ibook (osx - 10.1.5). I'm an experienced > user of perl, perl/tk, and tcl/tk - but have no experience with the mac > gui (i don't even know what to call it). Camelbones seems like a good > starting point for what I want to do - write small event-driven apps in > "native mac" instead of perl/tk - ideally, re-use my perl/tk scripts > with new widget-creating subs. > > Finally, the QUESTION: could someone please point me to some > documentation (FM or book or website) so that I can learn about the > mac-gui (arrrrrgghh, what do I call it? 8^) . > You *need* the book by Aaron Hillegas. It's an introduction into Cocoa programming (the OO-library which CamelBones is the Perl side of...). The book uses Objective-C (but if you know some basic C you will find it very easy to understand). The basic concepts taught there are necessary for understanding/working with CamelBones. Kay
