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Introduction to Cocui

September 16 by Rasmus Andersson, tagged cocoa, cocui, ui and screencast, filed under software

Cocui is a way to quickly create functional Cocoa applications using WebKit. Download and read more at http://github.com/rsms/cocui. You can watch the video in full resolution at Vimeo.

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    Andy L September 17

    Hi Rasmus, looks useful — did you check JSTalk out? Looks like you and Gus could join forces…

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    James Wheare November 30

    Looks great. A few tips and minor critiques:
    * Cmd-/ in Textmate toggles commented lines on and off.
    * Giving your app the Textmate icon was a bit confusing.
    * Are your JSON en/decoding functions using the native Ecmascript 5 JSON.stringify and JSON.parse methods now supported in Webkit? https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26249

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      Rasmus Andersson November 30

      • In my TextMate (factory-default) ⌘/ triggers the menu item search, which is currently disabled due to stability issues in 10.6.
      • Yes, I know. :P I just had the PSD of it laying around.
      • No, but I should. AFAIK it wasn’t supported in the official release at the time I wrote Cocui. Should probably add some logic to use the built-ins if available. Thanks.

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        James Wheare December 1

        • ⌘/ for comments is enabled by the “Source” bundle. I’m pretty sure that ships with TextMate by default, I don’t *think* I installed it separately. Maybe 10.6 menu item search overrides it (I’m still on 10.5)

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        James Wheare December 1

        Also, I would use Douglas Crockford’s json2.js, instead of writing your own encoding methods. It’s the reference implemention for the Ecmascript standard.

        http://json.org/json2.js

        Personally, I would ideally replace your own methods with direct calls to JSON.stringify/parse for the sake of standardising around conventions, but if you need to maintain your own methods, you could at least make them wrap json2.js methods directly.

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          Rasmus Andersson December 8

          I will most likely change/remove Cocuis own JSON encoding in the Javascript namespace in favor for the built-ins. No need for json2.js.

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    Austin Bales December 1

    This is pretty slick, but I’m having trouble accessing the NSApp instance. Specifically I’m trying to create a dock badge, but beyond App.terminate() i’m unable to use any of NSApp’s functionality.

    App.dockTile is not an object or a function.

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      Rasmus Andersson December 8

      The dockTitle is currently not an exposed method. The App instance in a Cocui app is not an actual NSApplication, but a proxy object called CUApp which exposes a set of properties and functions. I’ve constructed it in this way because exposing NSApplication directly would not give the possibility of simple things like App.terminate (that would instead have to be App.terminate(null)) and so on.

      You’re of course free to fork the repo and add the dockTitle property! :)

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        Austin Bales December 13

        Oh, I see. Unfortunately, the reason why Cocui is so appealing is my limited Obj-C/Cocoa knowledge. I guess there’s no avoiding it – I’ll have to learn Cocoa :-/

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    Karl January 5

    Please apologize, cause totally off topic but where do you have your wallpaper from?

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    Abdul Johnson 3 weeks ago

    It is useful to try everything in practice anyway and I like that here it’s always possible to find something new. :)

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