Re: Cocoa newbie frustration
Re: Cocoa newbie frustration
- Subject: Re: Cocoa newbie frustration
- From: "Erik M. Buck" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 23:38:19 -0500
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1. Apple does not provide any serious tutorials on Cocoa. The only
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tutorial I found was something I built rather fast (currency converter
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and Hello World). They don't seem to teach you anything (how do I
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create/bring up MULTIPLE windows, for example...). I checked the Sample
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Code too. Same deal. Nothing real, only small, insignificant apps.
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There are copious samples and tutorials. You evidently don't like internet
search tools. Here are about 3000 hits for a search on "Cocoa tutorial":
http://www.google.com/search?as_q=Cocoa+tutorial&num=100&btnG=Google+Search&;
as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe
=off
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2. Apple's documentation is #?!@. I have been searching for the
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documentation of the Objective-C's version of NSRect on their website.
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Where is it? I found the Java version, but NSRect is not present at the
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corresponding Objective-C Foundation documentation. Not only that, but
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in a lot of sections I find the following "Description forthcoming" .
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Forthcoming? When? This is not very professional.
You also don't like to search your own hard drive:
typedef struct _NSRect {
NSPoint origin;
NSSize size;
} NSRect;
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I have ideas and I would like to start working on them. Please, if any
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of you can point me to a more comprehensive tutorial, I would love to
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take a look at it. Also, if the documentation for the NSRect somewhere
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out there, and I simply didn't find it, please send me a link.
http://www.stepwise.com/StartingPoint/Cocoa.html
http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/VermontRecipes/
http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Technical/HTMLEditor/HTMLEditor-1.html