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Re: The problem with bindings

On 31. Jul 2004, at 7:37 Uhr, Scott Anguish wrote:

On Jul 30, 2004, at 8:37 PM, James DiPalma wrote:

Bindings are undocumented (except by their listing in IB)

???

identifiers with undocumented (but sometimes/often implied) behavior that will often trigger further undocumented but useful behavior and sometimes other bindings.


Do you mean that the bindings available for a given object are not documented?

I think what he meant was that you cannot tell from your source files whether bindings are being used in the interface.
Therefore it is quite difficult (for the beginner at least) to grasp what the 'bindings' settings in IB will do.
With outlets/target-action you can actually see the corresponding code, simply because you have to write them in order
to make it work ;-) And round and round it goes...
Think of undocumented as 'it is not written out in my code'.

I don't think that it was meant as a real critique but rather something that jumps you in the face, when trying to
explain bindings to a beginner. I often notice (with inexperienced programmers) a lack of understanding of how everything actually connects. But that includes target-action and is really not representative.

Kay
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References: 
 >The problem with bindings (From: Drew McCormack <email@hidden>)
 >Re: The problem with bindings (From: James DiPalma <email@hidden>)
 >Re: The problem with bindings (From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>)



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