Summary
In this chapter, we started out by taking a brief look at many of the
Cocoa development tools. In
/Developer/Applications, where most of the tools
are located, we looked at PB, IB, ObjectAlloc, PropertyListEditor,
IconComposer, and the icns Browser. There are other useful tools in
that folder that we did not cover — launch them and find out what
they do. In /Applications/Utilities, we looked
at Terminal, Console, and ProcessViewer. We spent the most time with
the gdb debugger, because it’s
an essential developer tool. We also worked with the filesystem and
took a quick look at user interface design.
In the next chapter we’ll take a closer look at IB, Apple’s powerful tool for building application interfaces, and create our first program.
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