FROM : Michael Watson
DATE : Wed Jul 19 20:26:56 2006
It also doesn't do anything for those who come from the visual design
world. There's a reason you don't write code to do layout in InDesign
or Illustrator. ;-)
Knowing how to create interfaces in code is essential to Cocoa
programming, of course. Being able to draw a view and its subviews in
code is a required skill. But the human-brain-thinks-about-layout-
visually aspect of what Interface Builder does is something you don't
quite get in code.
--
Michael Watson
On 19 Jul, 2006, at 13:48, Sherm Pendley wrote:
>> Interface Builder does not do anything that you can not do with code.
>
> Sure it does - it helps me meet deadlines. I couldn't do that with
> code. :-)
>
> sherm--
DATE : Wed Jul 19 20:26:56 2006
It also doesn't do anything for those who come from the visual design
world. There's a reason you don't write code to do layout in InDesign
or Illustrator. ;-)
Knowing how to create interfaces in code is essential to Cocoa
programming, of course. Being able to draw a view and its subviews in
code is a required skill. But the human-brain-thinks-about-layout-
visually aspect of what Interface Builder does is something you don't
quite get in code.
--
Michael Watson
On 19 Jul, 2006, at 13:48, Sherm Pendley wrote:
>> Interface Builder does not do anything that you can not do with code.
>
> Sure it does - it helps me meet deadlines. I couldn't do that with
> code. :-)
>
> sherm--






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