codencandy / clock

Analog Clock for MacOS written in Obj-C and C

Analog clock app for MacOS

This small project builds an analog clock featuring the following concepts:

• creating an application object
• creating a window
• unity build
• drawing with a constant frame rate
• creating a hardware renderer using the Metal framework
• loading images (PNG files)
• GPU shaders (Metal shading language)
• texture mapping
• 2D projection
• 2D rotation
• separation between platform layer and application

What you need

All you need to follow along or just build this project is:

• Visual Studio Code
• XCode command line tools (not XCode itself)
• cloc to measure lines of code

VS Code extensions

The following VS Code extensions are also partly necessary:

• C/C++ Extension Pack
• C/C++ Clang Command Adapter
• Metal Shader Extension for Visual Studio Code

How to build and run

In order to build the project execute
sh build.sh
in the root directory of this project

In order to run execute
./clock