Re: Attachability
Re: Attachability
- Subject: Re: Attachability
- From: Peter Fine <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 17:38:18 -0500
on 2/3/01 1:56 PM, Stephen Bryant at email@hidden wrote:
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On 3/2/01 at 13:27, Peter Fine <email@hidden> wrote:
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> There are other sources on the Web, but this is the Apple one:
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> <http://developer.apple.com/dev/techsupport/develop/bysubject/iac.html>
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> In addition to the articles by Cal Simone, read:
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> Programming for Flexibility: The Open Scripting Architecture, 18 develop
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> 26(June 1994)
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I have looked at the online docs but they seem aimed at developers rather than
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scripters.
I know that, but you can glean some useful information. The "Programming for
Flexibility" article has some paragraphs in (more or less) plain English
which helped me.
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I've also played around a little with SD, Smile and Style but find
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their documentation of attachability too brief and cryptic to provide much of
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a basis for experimentation.
That's the truth. If you find anything, please post.
Chapters 8 and 9 of the ASLG are relevant, but also too brief and cryptic
IMHO. Trial and error (lots of error!), especially with inheritance and
delegation, is the only way I've made any progress.
Those who know (e.g., Mark Alldritt, Emmanuel Levy, Jon Pugh, Cal Simone,
Richard23) either can't or won't discuss this stuff in language a mere
scripter could understand. In Cal's case, I believe he doesn't think it's
worth the effort, on the basis it's much too complicated and not very
useful. With the others, I've come to the conclusion they've internalized
OOP and can't see things from the perspective of those of us who have not.
Oh, well.
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Still looking ...
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Thanks anyway.
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Steve
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