Re: Cocoa frameworks/class diagrams or posters
Re: Cocoa frameworks/class diagrams or posters
- Subject: Re: Cocoa frameworks/class diagrams or posters
- From: Uli Kusterer <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:05:21 +0200
On 18.09.2007, at 02:18, Chris Heimark wrote:
Some of us have been unlucky enough to have spent too much time on
the dark side and finding out all that reeks in Microsoft land
(MFC). That said, one thing Microsoft did do is they provided a
very nice class diagram for MFC - a nice big poster. In the
intervening years since I last used MFC, I suppose it may have
grown to be more than one poster/diagram.
Does anyone know of such an item, already published, from Apple or
whomever, that shows the wonderful (class) land of Cocoa all laid out?
Around 2001 or so, when OS X was new, Apple shipped two big posters
with their developer memberships, one with the Cocoa class hierarchy
and the other with WebObjects' classes, I think (EOF?). I put them up
and never looked at them again. For a framework like Cocoa, the class
hierarchy is so simple that the diagrams are pretty useless. There's
just not enough depth in its hierarchy, and without multiple
inheritance, there's no mix-in classes to keep track of either.
I'd rather see a poster of instance relationships, especially for
the Cocoa text system and the various objects in NIBs (i.e. when I
started out, it took me a while to realize that the NSTextView you
get from the IB palette is by default embedded in an NSScrollView).
Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
http://www.zathras.de
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