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Instant Cocoa
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Issue: 1.1 (August/September 2002)
Author: Colin Cornaby
Author Bio: Colin Cornaby is an OS X developer. Current projects include "Duality," a theme changer for Mac OS X, written in REALbasic.
Article Description: Cocoa background
Article Length (in bytes): 4,435
Starting Page Number: 43
RBD Number: 1014
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When Apple released Mac OS X in March last year they did something remarkable. Included with the operating system (or available for a free download) were powerful development tools that rival the costly commercial C++ development tools of other platforms. This opened many new possibilities not only for companies wanting to port existing code to OS X, but also for shareware and freeware developers, and hobbyists. Now, amateurs and smaller developers could try programming without paying for development tools. Not only that, but Cocoa is one of the easiest varieties of C. It is a powerful Mac OS X-only language that allows programmers to use advanced portions of OS X.
In this column I'll be exploring Cocoa from a REALbasic developer's standpoint. I will also highlight the main differences between Cocoa and REALBasic. I'll be assuming that you are an intermediate RB programmer, and you know the basic vocabulary of RB (such as a method, a class, an argument, etc). I believe that having a firm understanding of RB is important before trying Cocoa, as RB and Cocoa are built on similar concepts. I'll assume, however, that you know nothing about Cocoa, Mac OS X, or C.
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