Question of .png and 'transparency'

2009-05-04 Thread Smith, Steven (MCP)
I'm not sure this is the list for this question, so apologies in advance if not. I'm trying to work on a game that has several pieces. In my design it makes sense (I think) to you several .png files that would be overlayed on the playing board. My questions: a) should my code do the

MVC - Model View Control

2009-03-04 Thread Smith, Steven (MCP)
Hi List! I'm trying to do coding with adherence to MVC, but I haven't found a good reference (eg book, ebook, amazon.com, et.al.) that wraps the elements together. There are are lots of white-papers and blogs, but can any recommend a good book that 'glues' the ideas together. I think I understand

newbie question on creating .png files

2009-02-12 Thread Smith, Steven (MCP)
Hi folks, I'm relatively new to Cocoa and need some direction on creating .png files. I need to create 365 png files (one for each day of the year) to be used as tags by other folks (eg JAN01.png JAN2.png...DEC31.png). I think I understand the draw/graphics concept, but I've been unable to get