Well, if you wonder why my blog has
some gaps recently, it’s because of me doing my first steps towards
Cocoa
programming on MacOS with XCode.
I didn’t do programming for a longer time, and a friend of mine
gave me that great book, that helps me a lot now to get into the
Objective-C slang, used for Cocoa.
In short terms, its really amazing how simple and structured Cocoa
programming with XCode actually is. And the best thing is,
objective-C has already implemented reference counting as this was
one of the best features of the Crystalspace 3D
Framework, for which I contributed to for 3 years.
These are some screenshots of applications of my first steps
programming with the previous mentioned book.
A lottery application:

More or less, the same application in a GUI frontend:

A letter counting GUI application:

And my latest finished training chapter, a speaking text
application, with choose-able voices.

Really, really, big fun… stay tuned for more within the next
days.
Further I’m really looking forward to see all the great new
features of MacOS
Leopard’s XCode 3.0, which is said to have graphical instant
performance tuning of running code…. wow… I really wanna see
this…
So far,
Kobaan.