Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Graphical Editing Framework for Cocoa

For my apprenticeship I am working on a project in Java in the Eclipse framework. Because we're working on a visual editor we make use of GEF (Graphical Editing Framework). The documentation for this is rather poor, but that's not the point of my post.

Now I have been searching for a similar framework in Cocoa, but haven't found anything. So here comes my mad megalomanic idea. Let's start a project on sourceforge to make our own framework, based on GEF. Of course making use of the idiosyncrasies of Objective-C and Cocoa, instead of the Java stuff in GEF.

I really believe such a project could provide a boost in Cocoa application development. Some input from other developers would be nice.

Mind, that I currently don't have time to immediately start something like that. Just some thoughts and dreams for the moment.

References:
Eclipse: http://www.eclipse.org
Gef: http://www.eclipse.org/gef/

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