Hi Buddy, I would advise to use the "regular" way, aka using Xcode, Interface Builder etc. I could think of two reasons for that: 1/ HotCocoa is, as far as I know, not maintained anymore 2/ By using Interface Builder, you'll learn more about writing Cocoa apps, wether it is in MacRuby or Objective-C :-)
However, please be aware that as of today, it is not possible to submit, on the AppStore (the iOS AppStore), an application that has been written using MacRuby :-(. Sincerely, -- Thibault Martin-Lagardette On Jan 1, 2011, at 05:09, Buddy Lindsey, Jr. wrote: > All, > > I am just starting with MacRuby and am kind of confused. There seems to be 2 > ways to do GUI development. Hotcocoa or Pure Cocoa API. My confusion is on > which one is best I like hotcocoa because it seems fairly straight forward on > doing GUI stuff, the little I have looked at it, but seems to rely on Cocoa > API where there aren't any mappings. However, I can use interface builder and > xcode more easily going with the pure cocoa api. I also am very confused when > doing anything with interface builder so I am leaning toward hotcocoa. > > As a note on my background. I just got my first mac in July and started doing > anything with ruby [on rails] in August. I come from a web development > background so desktop apps are a bit new to me. > > Anyone have any advice, comments, and or words of wisdom all they way around? > My goals is to make a fairly simple app I can put into the AppStore. > > Thanks > Buddy > > --- > Buddy Lindsey > http://www.buddylindsey.com > http://www.twitter.com/buddylindsey > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
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