Creating a Cocoa application without NIB files

Question

Yes, I know this goes against the whole MVC principle!

However, I\'m just trying to whip up a pretty trivial application - and I\'ve pretty much implemented it. Howe

Answer 1

Though this is a few years old question...

Here's minimal code snippet to bootstrap a Cocoa application in Swift.

import AppKit

final class ExampleApplicationController: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate {
    let window1 =   NSWindow()

    func applicationDidFinishLaunching(aNotification: NSNotification) {
        window1.setFrame(CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 800, height: 500), display: true)
        window1.makeKeyAndOrderFront(self)
    }

    func applicationWillTerminate(aNotification: NSNotification) {
    }

}

autoreleasepool { () -> () in
    let app1        =   NSApplication.sharedApplication()
    let con1        =   ExampleApplicationController()

    app1.delegate   =   con1
    app1.run()
}

Also, I am maintaining a bunch of programmatic examples for Cocoa including bootstrapping, window, menu creations.

• CocoaProgrammaticHowtoCollection

See subprojects for desired language.

• Swift examples
• Objective-C Examples