[comp.sys.next] IB

kls30@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L Shephard) (06/05/91)

Hello everybody.  Well here goes.   I got my docs. thank you very much
NeXT Inc.  It seems my bookstore sat on my order for over a month before
sending it to NeXT.  When NeXT found out that I had waited 5 weeks for the
bookstore to send my order and another 5 weeks in their system I got my
docs. the next day.

NeXT has great customer support.  Thank you.

Now for my question.  Since I got my docs I've been trying to write the
simple calculator program (celcius to fahrenheit).  I'm having problems.
THe first of which is that the 1.0 version of IB and the 2.0 version are
very different.

I'm also having problems with the form object.  In 1.0 it has 1 text entry
field.  In 2.0 it has 2 text enry fields and it doesn't connect the same
way.

When I think I have everythin connected lines in the '.h' and'.m' files
for the application don't contain everything the should.  Most of the class
declaration (?) stuff for the input and output are missing.  I'm following
the instructions very carefully and I still don't get the thing to compile
and work.

I'm baffled.
            Kent
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ty@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Tyng-Jing Yang) (06/06/91)

>Now for my question.  Since I got my docs I've been trying to write the
>simple calculator program (celcius to fahrenheit).  I'm having problems.
>THe first of which is that the 1.0 version of IB and the 2.0 version are
>very different.
>
>I'm also having problems with the form object.  In 1.0 it has 1 text entry
>field.  In 2.0 it has 2 text enry fields and it doesn't connect the same
>way.
>
>When I think I have everythin connected lines in the '.h' and'.m' files
>for the application don't contain everything the should.  Most of the class
>declaration (?) stuff for the input and output are missing.  I'm following
>the instructions very carefully and I still don't get the thing to compile
>and work.

Kent,

I had same probelm before until some netters point out there is a excellent
tutorial(IB_tutorial.ps.Z) in sonata.cc.purdue.edu/pub/next/submissions.
Check it out, satisfcation guarantee ;-) kuods to the author-Michael K. Mahoney

So where is our in-depth NeXT programming book ? 

Why it is so hard to wait for a programming book on NeXT while there
are so many GOOD programming books on MS-Windos, Macintosh and Motif ?

Does it means the NeXT base users are still too few to write a programming
book for them ?

Tell me, you NeXT gurus.

Jing

rimovsky@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Tony Rimovsky) (06/27/91)

Are there any ftp sites that have the Interface Builder on them.  The Network
that I am using doesn't seem to have it.