Eonil/CocoaProgrammaticHowtoCollection

2014/06/13 2015/01/10 Hoon H.

This shows how to create a Cocoa GUI app using only program code with no Interface Builder / Storyoard stuffs. Apple sample codes are great, but in many cases it lacks programmatic-only way and overly complex.

It's arguable that which one of IB-ful or IB-less strategy is better. But it's also clear that the IB sometimes doesn't fit to, work on or serve well some situations. This how-to examples are written for the situations.

This also contains some non-GUI stuffs lacked in Apple's documentation. For example, Umbrella framework.

These examples always aim minimal code and configuration, then what you see is all fully required to do the job.

• ComponentUsages

  Contains Swift examples. Written and tested in OSX 10.10.

  • Bootstrapping. How to make an empty AppKit application.
  • SplitViewExample. How to use NSSplitViewController.
  • TextInput. How to take international text input using NSTextInputClient mechanism.
  • TextView. How to make NSTextView properly working with scrolling.
  • OutlineViewExample. How to fully establish working NSOutlineView.
  • BorderlessRoundWindowWithShadow. How to make a border-less window with round corners and proper shadow. A bit verbose.
  • RegularDarkVibrantWindow. How to make a dark NSWindow with blurred transparent background. A bit verbose.
  • CustomNSTextViewWithNSTextStorage. How to make a custom NSTextView with custom NSTextStorage. A bit verbose.
  • CollectionView. How to use NSCollectionView.
  • NSTableViewExample. How to make view-based NSTableView with reused component views.
  • NSToolbar. How to make and use NSToolbar within an NSWindow properly.

• ComponentUsagesInObjectiveC

  Contains Objective-C based examples. Written and tested in OSX 10.9.

• NonUIStuffsExamples

  Contains non-UI stuff examples. Written and tested in OSX 10.9.

• iOSExamples

  Contains iOS stuff examples. Written in Swift and tested in iOS 8.0.

License

This code is written by Hoon H. (a.k.a. Eonil), and licensed under MIT license.

Contribution

The ultimate goal of this project is providing a collection of minimal examples for each single situations so I can imediately assemble them to figure out precise solution for my (and holpefully your) problems. It will be nice if you help me to improve this collection by reporting some issues, suggestions, questions or even a pull request!