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Re: Simplifying this code?

On Jul 29, 2004, at 9:55 AM, Theodore H. Smith wrote:

Thanks Shawn,

I've been studying this document you mentioned. It leads to a lot of new information... NSDocuments, undo, scripting, archivers, serialisers, window controllers...

Looks like I have a choice of:

1) Getting to grips with all that, which mostly means studying the API and finding a good tutorial. (I haven't found an NSDocument or NSUndoManager tutorial). I'm thinking when my model implements an NSCoder protocol, I'm still going to have to manually code references to each object variable! I'll have to refactor my design also because its all written around saving the interface the C way, generally my most despised task.

2) Just manually code references to a few object variables, and do it the C style way.

So really, if I wanted to get the job done, I'd use the C-style way. If I wanted to learn about Cocoa, I'd do it the Cocoa way. I think I'm going to do it the Cocoa way. I wonder why I can't find any tutorials on NSDocument, NSUndoManager and the rest? It seems there is a steep learning curve with the API at first.

I say spend the time to learn the capabilities provided by Cocoa and it is paradigms. Doing so will greatly reward you because you can off load a heck of a lot of code to the framework. I suggest getting the latest printing of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass for it covers a lot of this stuff in a hands on way. Also Cocoa Recipes for Mac OS X by Bill Cheeseman is hands on (it is based on the original Vermont Recipes online tutorial[1]).

Also note the example code under /Developer/Examples/AppKit/ in particular SimpleComboBox, TextEdit and Sketch if you want to understand a document based applications.

-Shawn

[1] <http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/VermontRecipes/>
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 >Re: Simplifying this code? (From: "Theodore H. Smith" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Simplifying this code? (From: Shawn Erickson <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Simplifying this code? (From: "Theodore H. Smith" <email@hidden>)



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