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By: mattjdrake

mattjdrake — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:19:37 +0000

@coreyfloyd, @dannyg – thanks for the comments guys. I guess that one of the “problems” I have with IB is that I mostly use table views in my apps. So, not much of a value add for me. But, I am going to give IB another shot starting with my blog posts for next week. I should like it is since I use the similar-ish tool in keynote all the time.

PS: one last vent. – I was just reading through @dannyg’s blog post about learning IB. And it occurs to me that a tool that is meant to simplify things should not require such a lengthly detailed article to explain different ways of essentially coping with the tool. [good post though].

By: dannyg

dannyg — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:06:42 +0000

I talk about my conversion to IB in one of my blog postings:

http://dannyg.com/iapps/Blog/Entries/2009/4/16_How_I_Grew_to_Love_Interface_Builder.html

By: coreyfloyd

coreyfloyd — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:52:13 +0000

First I used IB because it seemed easy. Then I realized that complicated things were hard in IB and I went on to doing (and learning) programatic techniques. This went on for a while and helped me learn some solid principles.
Later I became angry, knowing that IB was a good tool and should be making my life easier. So I went back into IB, and everything made sense. I was able to link nibs together to accomplish complex tasks that I thought needed to be done programatically. I actually use nibs for my UITableView Cells, which works surprisingly fast (For text only so far).
My use of IB is almost hybrid now. You can plan to split up your views amongst nibs in certain ways to get flexibility when you need it.
One iPhone complaint I have is the limited control of TableViews in IB. For something so central to the iPhone, it seems like they should be drag drop and go. The design of most TableView data sources us pretty similar and should allow for great control in IB.

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By: mattjdrake

mattjdrake — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:39:53 +0000

Thanks for the comments! I am going to try yet again to work with IB and see if it has any benefits. One thing I do like is that it helps out layout the components in a visually pleasing way. It just seems that it is pointless for certain controls like date pickers and table views. (to me).

By: wuf810

wuf810 — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:41:00 +0000

Much prefer Interface Builder and use it the majority of the time. Why have a graphical tool to do the do and then not use it. Obviously there are certain things that can’t be done but I then use IB as the base and then add the required code after.

By: marlenez@mac.com

marlenez@mac.com — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:24:36 +0000

I use both, don’t really have a preference. When I first started programming on the iPhone I tended to not use IB because making the connections was confusing until you get the hang of it. I actually think that doing it in code is faster.