Would love iPhone book (Prag) to move away from IB samples

Many of us have decided to do plenty of our iphone work without the help of IB and I would like to see more examples without the use of IB.

Hi Sam,

I will have to respectfully say ‘no’. While using IB takes a bit of getting used to I can’t recommend that someone write code when they could build the UI graphically.

I do know several people that don’t like using IB but it is my firm belief that you should so I will be teaching that approach.

Agreed. You have to keep in mind that this book needs to be written with the ‘majority’ in mind, and I have to assume that the people who don’t want to use IB are a small minority. I started writing UI’s programatically with Swing, and I have to say that IB is a godsend compared to that.

Shifting the subject slightly, I’m working on an interface which will have a picture with non-obvious buttons (or some other way of making picture elements touch-sensitive). Questions:

(a) Can I do that with IB? Do I make the buttons invisible? (Does that have performance implications?)

(b) [... and this is why I tacked it onto this thread] What if I want to be able to expand, shrink, and scroll the picture in the usual iPhone way, and have the buttons expand or shrink (along with their spacing) and scroll accordingly, so they remain tied to the same picture elements? Can I do that with something IB-based? There would have to be provisions made for handling touches on a picture which becomes too small (perhaps ignoring them, for example). Can that somehow be accommodated with an IB-based interface?