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1 days and 18 hours ago
I've been programming windows for over a decade now.. when i hit the home or end key on a mac, i
feel that tingle of frustration as the entire page scrolls to the very top or very bottom instead
of the beginning/end of the line as i would expect... i'm once again a newbie - but this time i'm
in a land where there doesn't seem to be mountains of resources to sift through - thousands of
tutorials and loads of source code waiting to be Ctrl+C'ed and Ctrl+V'ed... hehe.. ahem...
To be honest I've been pouring through documentation for the last two days straight, and i already
hate (read: loathe) mac programming. however, i have a large-scale desktop application that is just
begging to be ported to the mac, and i am ready to jump in head first and learn a brand new
operating system... from the inside out.
so, now as i embark on this journey, i humbly ask for a few things:
1) the end-all-be-all mac programming reference. in the win32 world we have the mighty msdn which
has saved my skin more times than i can count. keyword here: reference - not tutorial/guide/how
to.
2) THE mac programming forum. perhaps i'm already here? not many threads, so i'm assuming there's
got to be something bigger, better?
3) best source for tutorials and umm.. source. kinda like thecodeproject.com maybe?
and now a more specific question:
in my windows applications i stay far away from wysiwyg gui drag/drop stuff. every visual element
is created and controlled programmatically. see, in windows, it's not quite as gruesome as it may
sound, and the benefits are enough to write a short book on.
is this possible in Carbon? (btw, yes, carbon is what i'll be writing all my ports in - not a fan
of objective c or spending a decade porting 100,000 lines of code. i'd just rather reuse as much of
my c/c++ as i can) if so, can anyone point me in the right direction for info on how to do
this?
ps. i've already gone through most of the examples in the xcode examples directory.
if you can offer any tips for any of my questions, i'd be eternally grateful!!!
fact: i've hit the end key probably 20 times while writing this after each time i backspace to make
a correction, only to be sent to the bottom of this lovely web page... sigh... go ahead... laugh
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