https://github.com/jlyonsmith/pinboard

Pinboard application using Xamarin.Mac
https://github.com/jlyonsmith/pinboard

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Pinboard application using Xamarin.Mac

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jlyonsmith/pinboard
• Owner: jlyonsmith
• Created: 2014-04-24T01:21:12.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-02-11T02:59:28.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-17T16:35:27.833Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: C#
• Size: 395 KB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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## Pinboard

Pinboard is a simple document centric application written using [Xamarin.Mac](http://xamarin.com).  It allows you to create a document containing a collection of named, colored overlapping rectangles.  This is useful for screen layout and content placement. It is used to create the screen layouts for the iOS app [Jamoki Spider Solitaire](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spider-solitaire-by-jamoki/id511985351) for example.

The app serves as a very full featured example of how to write model/view/controller (MVC) applications using Xamarin.Mac.  It is a great starting place for a real document centric application because it includes most of the things you are likely to need in such an app, including undo and multi-selection.

Specifically, it shows how to use the follow classes and concepts in Cocoa on iOS:

- NSScrollView (for scrolling and magification)

- KVC/KVO and binding

- NSWindowController

- NSDrawer

- NSArrayController

- NSObjectController

- NSUndoManager

- NSToolbar

- NSMenu/NSMenuItem

- Custom NSViews

- Quartz graphics

- Advanced XIB files

The app also makes use of Mono libraries for loading and saving XML files.  

If you have the [Sketch](http://bohemiancoding.com/sketch/) application, you can see how easy it is to create great looking resources for your OSX applications using it.  The folder `RawResources` contains the origin `.sketch` artwork that is used to generate all the `.png` files in the `Resources` directory.

As it stands now, the codebase makes a great starting point for a simple vector drawing program, or other graphics centric application.

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John Lyon-Smith, February 2015