Re: NSController revisited
Re: NSController revisited
- Subject: Re: NSController revisited
- From: Marco Scheurer <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 16:26:19 +0100
On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 03:46 PM, Stiphane Sudre wrote:
On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 03:25 PM, Aaron Hillegass wrote:
After many demonstrations of the power of NSController ("Aaron, this
app was 252,500 lines of code, but with NSController it is only >> 3!"),
I'm particularly interested by this point.
NSController(252,500) = 3;
Can it be possible to have the conversion ratio on the number of
outlet connections?
Because if you replace 252,500 lines of code with 3 (which I doubt is
a real case), doesn't it mean that you have added 2,500 connections in
your nibs?
The issue being that you can more easily find a bug in your code than
an issue in a connection. If you refer to the time you waste sometimes
figuring out why the app is not working when you just forgot to create
the connection between the V and the C.
I presume that to be fair the comparison would be done in cases where
outlet connections where already needed. For instance preferences
panes, inspector panels and the like with regular controller code to
glue the UI elements to the model.
Even assuming a generous 10 lines per outlet, that would mean 25000
outlets. What application uses 25000 outlets? That's a thousand
preference panels with 25 UI elements each!
Frankly, I fail to see how this makes sense to the regular Cocoa
programmer. Was this porting a non-Cocoa, non-IB project?
Marco Scheurer
Sen:te, Lausanne, Switzerland
http://www.sente.ch
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