rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) (12/23/90)
I don't have a machine yet, so if it is in TFM please tell me where and I will look when I get it. In the meantime, I had a demo on IB and was quite impressed. However, it seems to require Objective C while I come from a background of cobbling things together out of Unix utilities and only going to C when I need speed or some functionality I can't get from one of the utilities. So, can I do this under IB on the NeXT and how? Can clicking on a button or whatever run a shell script or must it run Objective C code? This is doubly important for the simple reason that I don't know zip about Objective C and I suspect it will take a while to learn. -- Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA 412-471-5320 ...!uunet!pitt!investor!rbp rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us
wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis) (12/25/90)
In article <1990Dec23.020711.22930@investor.pgh.pa.us> rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes: >Can clicking on a button or whatever run a shell script or must it run >Objective C code? This is doubly important for the simple reason that I >don't know zip about Objective C and I suspect it will take a while to >learn. Well, clicking on a button must run Obj-C code, but that code could just be a system() call or something. Objective-C is a superset of plain old ANSI C, and in fact Interface Builder will generate a 'skeleton' for you so you don't even have to use Obj-C features at all if you don't want to do anything complicated involving the GUI. (Actually, it seems to me it should be possible to write an application that just loads a specified .NIB file, and accepts target messages from objects, calling shell scripts as appropriate --- it could be used with multiple .NIB files -- sort of a graphical shell... Hmmmm ...) -- wiml@milton.acs.washington.edu Seattle, Washington (William Lewis) | 47 41' 15" N 122 42' 58" W "These 2 cents will cost the net thousands upon thousands of dollars to send everywhere. Are you sure you want to do this?"