Re: Serious Questions
Re: Serious Questions
- Subject: Re: Serious Questions
- From: Rosyna <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 14:39:54 -0700
It seems like you are approaching everything from a Fortran point of
view, where everything is a lot more difficult than it should be.
Take a break, get some coffee, forget EVERYTHING you know about
fortran and TeX for a while, take the currency converter tutorial,
and take a fresh approach to Cocoa. Pretend cocoa is a new toy that
you inspect thoroughly. And remember, you can test interfaces in IB.
Ack, at 5/26/01, email@hidden said:
I do not understand how a person is supposed to get started with
Cocoa when there is little, and very often NO documentation for even
the simplest things. I just dragged over a pop-up button to try and
figure out how that might work--not actually connecting it to
anything, but just to see if I could get it working on an interface
level--but after thirty minutes of looking everywhere I could think
of I'm still at a complete loss. The inspector window went away and
I could not figure out how to get it back. Searching Interface
Builder's "Help" found ZERO hits for "inspector"! Now that's scary.
The only thing I got to work was changing the names of the three
choices offered. But how do I reduce that to only 2 choices? Or
increase it to 4 or 5 items? Every time I turn around someone is
touting Cocoa as an easy thing to learn. For whom, I wonder?
If I'm the problem then it must be that I don't have sufficient
background because I just had a full battery of cognitive tests and
I'm still a pretty smart guy. Damn smart, in fact. So is a couple
of courses 25 years ago in Fortran and a little TeX macro writing in
the meantime way too little to start from? Do I need to sell my
shack here in the Northern woods and move someplace where there are
a few Gurus I can hang out with and maybe pick something up that
way? Buy a few rounds? Do I need a goat, or will a chicken be
sufficient sacrifice? If I go to the dark side will I find the same
problem there?
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Sincerely,
Rosyna Keller
Technical Support/Holy Knight/Always needs a hug
Unsanity: Unsane Tools for Insane People