Re: Why initialize the menubar without Interface Builder

FROM : Sherm Pendley
DATE : Sun Nov 04 00:49:15 2007

On Nov 3, 2007, at 7:26 PM, Robert Nikander wrote:

> On Nov 3, 2007, at 3:39 PM, Erik Buck wrote:
>

>> There is a current discussion "Re: Initializing the menubar 
>> without Interface Builder."  What I desperatly want to know is WHY ?

>
> Do you mean that I need to explain why I "think different"? :)
>
> Seriously, let me try to answer your question.  For me, I usually 
> find it easier and more powerful to work with code-defined GUIs, 
> but in order to do this I need two things that don't exist in all 
> GUI libraries, and don't seem to exist by default with Cocoa.  I'll 
> explain those two things below.  Let me just say, I do *not* want 
> to define a GUI like this:
>
>    button = new Button();
>    button.X = 231;
>    button.Y = 54;
>    panel.add( button );
>    ...
>
> where I manually specify coordinates and dimensions.
>
> The two things I need are:
>
> 1. "Layout managers", or whatever you want to call them.
> 2. A way to use declarative language.


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