Objective-C graphing and plotting with little-plot
As development has continued on a personal project it became obvious that I would need to implement UI elements that simply weren’t part of the Cocoa UI-kit. Essentially the main goal is presenting the user with a graph interface allowing them to quickly see a data set without having to read through line after line of figures. I looked at Core Plot (http://code.google.com/p/core-plot/), which whilst providing some great functionality looks like a HUGE amount of overkill when wanting a simple UI element.
So after a few days of tinkering I’ve created a couple of NSView subclasses allowing either manually created Views that can be presented arrays and will display the data accordingly.
I present Little-plot :
The above screenshot consists of three NSViews (LineView, PieView and LabelView), which each display a line graph, a pie chart and graph labels (or legends).
The project is available on GitHub here.
Updates will appear soon, along with some real documentation.
Read MoreFace Detection in OSX
After reading this (http://maniacdev.com/2011/11/tutorial-easy-face-detection-with-core-image-in-ios-5/) tutorial for iOS 5 face detection I decided to try it for plain olde osX, I do find it somewhat annoying that the objective-C community is only focused on development using the iOS SDKs. The main changes involved turning the UI classes into NS classes and find ways around missing methods. I’ve uploaded my Source Code, which you can download and play with.
