[Gene Jockey]

Hi all...I apologise for my programming ignorance in advance...

Here's what I'd like to do as an exercise in learning something about OS X programming. Basically, I know people have built Cocoa front ends onto CLI utilities in order to make them a little easier to use. The utility I have in mind is called Shorten, it's an audio compressor that packs audio data w/o loss (or with, if you want). Good for archiving CDs or moving non-lossy audio over the net. Those who care can get the source here and have a look.

So, anyone with ideas on some docs I can read or places on the 'Net I can visit to learn about how to do this on OS X? I have all the Dev Tools installed, and I even started making up a simple little interface for it in Interface Builder. Is this something I could cut my teeth on and learn a lot? I'm hoping there are people who have done stuff like this before who can point me to some good resources. Thanks in advance for any help...I promise I'll make it available if I finish it.

--J

[ 02-10-2002: Message edited by: Gene Jockey ]

[skeedog98]

You could try reading some over at Cocoa Dev Central.

[Groovy]

go to apple's dev source code area.

there is a GUI wrapper template project. with it you can put a GUI
front end on CLI stuff in 15 mintues

[msykes]

Originally posted by Groovy:
<STRONG>go to apple's dev source code area.

there is a GUI wrapper template project. with it you can put a GUI
front end on CLI stuff in 15 mintues</STRONG>

http://developer.apple.com/samplecod.../Moriarity.htm

I think this might be what you are looking for, at least from the description.

A few similar tools have also been posted to versiontracker, you might check if they are open source (there are at least 3 different frontends to wget last time I checked)