Re: AppKit source available as reference?
Re: AppKit source available as reference?
- Subject: Re: AppKit source available as reference?
- From: Rob Rix <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 22:06:54 -0400
So... my request is for Apple to make the source code available (not open
source), just as a reference.
Well, let me put it this way: I can see it as being a good thing, but I
can also see it as being a bad thing.
It would be neat to be able to see some implementation details, just out
of my own curiosity, but then again, that violates the object-oriented
nature of it; objects hide their implementations. You shouldn't have to
use them as a reference.
As for slight modifications, there are several options: subclassing,
subclassing and posing, and categories.
Basically, I don't think it would be a particularly good idea, because the
whole idea of objects is to get you to stop caring about how their
implemented, and just use the interfaces.
Now, it would be better if the interfaces were better documented, but I
think we've all beat that horse to death by now.
-- Rob
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar
Wilde