Side effects?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 31, 2013, at 19:34, Ian Wadham <iandw.au at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Interface Builder. It's part of Xcode.
>> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Builder
> 
> Thanks, Ryan.  That looks good.  It's not exactly lying around on the surface
> in Xcode, though.  FWICG, you have to use File->New… and ask for a XIB
> file(?).

I would say using Interface Builder is fundamental to writing a GUI application on OS X. Using Xcode to its fullest potential, and how to develop a Mac app, are not things I think one can easily intuit by just opening Xcode and poking around in it. There are many tutorials out there, even entire courses, that teach this. There was a nice Stanford course on iOS development with Cocoa touch that you can find for free on iTunesU; it looked pretty good, but is of course tailored for iOS development; maybe there's one tailored for OS X development.