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For the Shape Drawer idea, how would you draw a regular nth-gon (a regular polygon with n sides)? –JohnDevor
I definitely saw a tutorial out there that had a slider and an NSView. As you moved the slider the polygon added sides - triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon, etc. It was either at O’Reilly or some other place. I am sorry I can’t tell you exactly where. If I find it I will let you know. – AlexanderD
*You must mean RoundTransparentWindow: http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/Sample_Code/Cocoa/RoundTransparentWindow.htm *
Sounds promising. – JohnDevor
This example is (nearly) fully fleshed-out in BookBuildingCocoaApplications by Garfinkel and Mahoney. There is a bug in the presented code that is not that difficult to eliminate.
Game of Life:
http://www.nancesoftware.com/development/sample_code/game_of_life
It really isn’t the most efficient code (not at all actually), but it gets the job done. Feel free to share your suggestions.
http://www.thelittleappfactory.com/developer/download/Squiggles.zip
A quasi take on the drawer shapes, but instead it uses rand() and a timer to draw semi-random squiggles. – MatPeterson
I took a shot at Shape Drawer and posted the source to my website – MikeZornek
http://mikezornek.com/cocoa/
I made a working alarm clock example and posted it on my site: http://www.jokeweb.net/alarmClock.html –AdamLeonard