iPhone SDK and OpenGL ES - First attempts

January 8th, 2009

I dared him to jump into cold water * shiver * After a first look at Objective-C had caused me a bad feeling in my stomach, I was on the verge of proceeding with the flight.

 aDictionary = [ [ NSMutableDictionary alloc ] init ] ; [ aDictionary setObject : @ "Ei" forKey : @ "egg" ] ; [ aDictionary setObject : @ "Auto" forKey : @ "car" ] ; [ aDictionary setObject : @ "Hallo Welt!" forKey : @ "Hello, world!" ] ; NSLog ( [ aDictionary objectForKey : @ "Hello, world!" ] ) ; [ aDictionary release ] ; NSMutableDictionary * aDictionary = [[ NSMutableDictionary alloc] init], [aDictionary setObject: @ "egg" forKey: @ "egg"], [aDictionary setObject: @ "Auto" forKey: @ "car"], [aDictionary setObject: @ " Hello world! "forKey: @" Hello, world! "]; NSLog ([aDictionary objectForKey: @" Hello, world! "]); [aDictionary release];

Seemed too strange to the syntax. Was not there a "C" in the name of this programming language?

But first impressions can be deceptive. A little tutorial, roll two textures from Wolf 3D, and about three days later, the story then looked quite different: