In Cocoa (or maybe GUI development in general) how do you specify an arbitrary number of things tiled together?

Question

I'm new to creating GUI's, everything I've done up until this point is using the command line.

I'm trying to create a port of minesweeper to the macintosh, as an experiment, and I've got the CLI working, but I'm running into walls everywhere with the gui. The first thing it seems I have to do, however, is be able to tile n x m 'boxes' for grid - and I'm not sure how to do that. The information is ready to be handed to it, but I don't know where to do it, or how.

Also, if anyone has any recommendations for sites/Cocoa development books, feel free to drop them in here...

Thanks!

Answer 1

In general you should go with controls that give you a grid layout. Cocoa gives you two choices:

• NSMatrix, grouping NSCell instances
• NSCollectionView, grouping NSView instances (OSX >= 10.5)