MOKit 2.8 is Available

MOKit is a framework which offers a bunch of canned functionality to Cocoa developers. Some general highlights:

- Regular expressions
- Arbitrary autocompletion
- Draggable tab views
- Debugging tools
- Min/max sizes for NSViews
- A collapsable list view, as in the Finder's get info window
- A variable-length assertion macro
- Fancy runtime stuff: method replacement, array of all loaded classes, all subclasses of a given class, and so on

The table and outline view subclasses provide some commonly-implemented behavior, such as simplified drag-and-drop, copy/paste, more flexible keyboard navigation, delegate support for handing return and delete keys, and per-cell contextual menus.

The big deal in this release is the MOViewController class, which helps manage windows with a lot of UI. This is helpful if, for example, you have a single window with several tabs, each of which has a bunch of controls.

The example given in the release notes is an MOTabViewController automatically creates and manages tab for each child view controller contained within it.

The project is well-documented, so it's easy to figure out if it has what you need for a given task.
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MOKit 2.8 is Available
Posted Mar 21, 2005 — 3 comments below




 

Jim — Jun 02, 05 193

Interesting tip! Thanks! But i am wondering: Can this frame work stand the comparison with Perl-based regular expressions (i am thinking of such elements as .*? or [^ ] or multi-line pattern matching)?. AS to Cocoa: Two more quite intriguing Cocoa dev helping utilities seem to be: Accessorizer and class-dump ( homepage.mac.com/nygard/Porjects/ Or what do you think? (i am just beginning to explore this terra incognita called Cocoa) Best regards!

Scott Stevenson — Jun 02, 05 195 Scotty the Leopard

I'm not sure offhand which regex library is used in MOKit, but it's probably pretty easy to test.

Accessorizer is a useful tool (Kevin does a great job with it), as is class-dump.

Jim — Jun 02, 05 196

Following a tip at inessential.com i also came across this site: www.ridiculousfish.com/blog/




 

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