Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: xibless
Version: 0.2.0
Summary: Generate Objective-C code that builds Cocoa UIs. Replaces XCode's XIBs
Home-page: http://hg.hardcoded.net/xibless/
Author: Virgil Dupras
Author-email: hsoft@hardcoded.net
License: BSD
Description: ===================================
        xibless - Get rid of XIBs and XCode
        ===================================
        
        ``xibless`` is a library that generates Objective-C code that builds Cocoa UIs. The goal of this library
        is to replace XIBs in XCode and, if you want, get rid of XCode altogether.
        
        With ``xibless``, instead of designing UIs with a WYSIWYG editor, you build them in a Python script,
        similarly to what you do when you build Qt UIs without the Designer. For example, a script like this::
        
            result = Window(200, 200, 330, 110, "Tell me your name!")
            nameLabel = Label(result, text="Name:")
            nameField = TextField(result, text="")
            helloLabel = Label(result, text="")
            button = Button(result, title="Say Hello")
        
            nameLabel.width = 45
            nameLabel.packToCorner(Pack.UpperLeft)
            nameField.packRelativeTo(nameLabel, Pack.Right, Pack.Middle)
            nameField.fill(Pack.Right)
            helloLabel.packRelativeTo(nameLabel, Pack.Below, Pack.Left)
            helloLabel.fill(Pack.Right)
            button.packRelativeTo(helloLabel, Pack.Below, Pack.Right)
            nameField.setAnchor(Pack.UpperLeft, growX=True)
            helloLabel.setAnchor(Pack.UpperLeft, growX=True)
            button.setAnchor(Pack.UpperRight)
        
        would generate Objective-C code that build a form with a name field, a text label and a button. The
        second part of the script places the widgets on the form appropriately.
        
        **Although xibless is written in Python, the Objective-C code it generates has no Python dependency,
        so this tool is suitable for any Cocoa developer.**
        
        ``xibless`` runs on Python 2.7 and up. This means that if you're on OS X 10.7 or newer, you can use
        the built-in Python. Otherwise, you'll have to install a more recent version of Python.
        
        **Installation and usage:** Please refer to the `Documentation <http://packages.python.org/xibless/>`_
        for installation and usage instructions.
        
        Early Development
        -----------------
        
        ``xibless`` is in very early development and there's no API documentation yet. For now, you'll have
        to figure that API from the demos and by digging directly in the source. Also, note that this API
        could wildly change before v1.0.
        
        Also, the number of rough edges at the moment are incalculable. There are no error message for
        invalid UI scripts, so it might be very hard, for now, to figure out why your scripts don't work.
        
        Oh, yes, and memory leaks, there's tons of them.
        
        
        Changes
        =======
        
        Version 0.2.0 -- 2012/06/28
        ---------------------------
        
        * Added Sphinx documentation
        * Added the ``xibless run`` command for quick UI previews.
        * Added Combobox and Popup.
        
        Version 0.1.0 -- 2012/06/25
        ---------------------------
        
        * Initial pre-alpha release
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Environment :: Console
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
Classifier: Operating System :: MacOS :: MacOS X
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Objective C
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Code Generators
