
454 9 Chapter 21: Interface Design and Controls
If you are using Cocoa, MacApp, or PowerPlant, you have taken a
large step toward consistency and standards. The buttons, text
fields, sliders, and other controls that you implement are drawn by
the respective frameworks and they implement Apple's interface
guidelines.
This chapter addresses the general issue of guidelines and standards
and explains why they are important for your application. It then
walks through each of the interface elements that you can use in In-
terface Builder, providing you with the terminology, human inter-
face guidelines, and relevant programming topics ...