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I realized that there is no Mac OS UI builder. Can you please tell the best way to create a user interface on Mac OS?

Thanks.

Rob Cowie
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Since this question is tagged with Marmalade, I can tell you that Marmalade SDK comes with a great UI builder tool for creating .ui files, which you can compare with .xml files for Android or .xib file for iOS.

0xC0DED00D
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    ...except unfortunately it doesn't any more. The Mac version of Marmalade has never had a UI builder tool and it has now been shelved in the PC version too (as of v6.0.3 and possibly earlier). Apparently the IwUI API is going to continue shipping but as a legacy module, so its unlikely to be developed further. Marmalade have hinted that they will be pointing us at some OpenSource UI solution but haven't said more than that yet. – Wave 1 Jul 12 '12 at 23:20
  • Actually we've faced the same issue with latest version of Marmalade. Marmalade people replied that any previous UI builder can work with latest Version. I like to code in Visual studio so I use a PC. If you are using Mac you can also create UI into PC and use it with XCode. – 0xC0DED00D Jul 13 '12 at 07:33
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The Marmalade Studio UI Builder has been removed from the Marmalade SDK.

You can download UI Builder from: https://github.com/marmalade/UI-Builder

More Info: http://docs.madewithmarmalade.com/native/art_tools_reference/uibuilder.html

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The 'official' GUI builder tool (beta) doesn't appear to run on os x so I think you have no choice but to create the application gui by hand-editing the xml definitions. I cant find any reference to a third-party tool.

Rob Cowie
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I don't know what you mean by "Mac OS UI builder", but as far as I understand Xcode comes with a tool to build interfaces graphically. It is called "Interface Builder", and it is integrated in Xcode 4. You can find many tutorials about it on the web.

Here a tutorial focusing on the iPhone.

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Ive been using vmware fusion to launch the PC version. Not ideal i know, but better than editing by hand. The next point release of Marmalade however is promising a big change in UI building (I predict it will use JS/web view :) ) so i wouldn't expect a UI builder soon if theres a new system coming.

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