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Best Rapid Application Development IDE?

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Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 9:00 am
Alright you old pros...

Most of my Mac programming experience is in REALBasic. RB gets the job done for me, but I've recently found a need to dust of my old C and C++ skills. Do any of you have a tip for the best IDE for some quick work w/ apps?

I've used CodeWarrior, but I really love the ability of RB and XCode to just lay out an interface and add the code after. Are there any tools like that (aside from RB) that will allow me to do this for OS 8/9? I'm thinking MPW is not the best choice here. Wink

Peace,
Drew
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Kallikak
Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 4:50 pm
Heh - probably not MPW I'm afraid, unless you want to tackle MacApp and AdLib. I haven't used CodeWarrior since Pro version 2, but back then CodeWarrior with PowerPlant and the associated visual editor (kind of like a souped up ResEdit) supported pretty quick GUI development. I expect the same tools are there (and most likely enhanced) in later versions. I've written a few PowerPlant apps, and it really is a very nice system.

Ken