Re: AppKit source available as reference?
Re: AppKit source available as reference?
- Subject: Re: AppKit source available as reference?
- From: Phillip Mills <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:37:07 -0400
On 6/28/01 12:13 PM, "Karl Goiser" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I used Smalltalk for a few years. You get the source to pretty well
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everything and, generally, just fairly high-level documentation.
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The source provided me with invaluable insights into how to program
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in Smalltalk. With a source browser, I would scan through likely
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classes, finding relevant methods and who called them and why. In
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the calling methods, I would find the style of usage of the methods -
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examples.
Absolutely true. Additionally (and my greatest experience with this comes
from PowerPlant) you can learn from the running application how the parts
interact and where/how you should add functionality. Run a sample
application under the debugger, break on something interesting, and examine
the stack. Not only do *I* benefit by reading the code, but the debugger
gives more useful information.
CodeWarrior's documentation was always a bit behind the class
implementation...a fact of life for "living" software...so learning the
details from the source was the practical alternative.