Announcing SCXIB: Use Interface Builder to design SproutCore web applications

github.com

16 points·devinus··5 comments

I'm one of the authors. This is different from Cappuccino's nib2cib because SCXIB writes the actual SproutCore JavaScript code that drives the UI.

It's rather amusing the SproutCore community used to trash talk Cappuccino's nib2cib, and now they have their own version.

There are benefits to serializing the object graph vs generating code, namely that it's easier to open and edit using a tool like Atlas (and Greenhouse, or whatever SproutCore's version is called).

This is very exciting. Following on GitHub & anxiously waiting for the demo video to finish converting.

However, doesn't this go slightly against Jolley's idea[1] that the tools should be free and available to everyone (including Linux and Windows users)? I understand this is not the de-facto tool for SproutCore development, but do you think that making an Interface Builder clone with SproutCore itself is a viable option? It would have a lovely meta-feel to it, like the Rubinius Ruby interpreter being written mostly in Ruby.

Neways, kudos for releasing the project. I'm going to try it later when I get home.

[1] http://blog.sproutcore.com/post/756343010/the-next-revolutio...

There are now two ways to design SproutCore applications: Greenhouse and now SCXIB. Greenhouse is exactly what you described--an entirely SproutCore-based interface builder[1]. We created SCXIB to give developers more choice.

[1] http://blog.sproutcore.com/post/535950751/introducing-greenh...

Thanks :-)

Reply on news.ycombinator.com