Cocoa Toolkits and Resources

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I’ve been fooling around with Cocoa development over the last few months and I’m beginning to really love Objective-C. The syntax was a bit daunting at first, but the language seems really elegant once you figure it out. As my understanding of Cocoa and Objective-C increases I’ve been trying to compile a list of resources. There’s a wealth of really great example code out there if you know where to look.

A couple of new Cocoa Development toolkits have recently emerged which aim to ease development of common Cocoa development tasks:

KTUIKit:

The goal of the project is to provide solutions to three important issues in any Mac UI project:

• Layout
• Styling
• The MVC design pattern (specifically the V & C parts)

And also BWToolkit:

BWToolkit is a BSD licensed plugin for Interface Builder 3 that contains commonly used UI elements and other useful objects. Using these objects is as simple as dragging them from the library to your canvas or document window.

Both toolkits come with an Interface Builder plugin to ease integration with your own projects.

Also, Matt Gemmell has an excellent library of Cocoa Source code online that you are free to use in your own projects.