Re: Joy?
Re: Joy?
- Subject: Re: Joy?
- From: Brian Hill <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 14:54:34 -0500
On Monday, October 8, 2001, at 02:08 PM, email@hidden wrote:
Does anyone here have experience with "Joy" from AAA+ Software? I
just learned of this from MacCentral and the hype sounds good, but the
price is pretty steep. I'm especially interested in the alleged help
for beginners.
Brian E. Howard
Cocoa Cult Central
will grasp at straws--if they float
Well, I'm a happy user of the licensed version. I'm not sure how it
might be for beginners, but they have a liberal, renewable demo license
that you can use to try it out.
It's handy for me in two big ways:
A) Integrated class browser. Shows you what classes, methods and
instance variables actually exist in the runtime at any given point.
Gives you access to these instances as well.
B) Interpreted ObjC: you can mix ObjC and javascript syntax to execute
any arbitrary method on any existing object, create new objects,
integrate these scripts into compiled programs, etc... very, VERY handy
for prototyping. I recently had to write a custom cell 'icon like' class
that had fairly intricate drawing requirements. Using Joy to prototype
the drawing methods saved me hours, since I could literally code the
method while the program was running -- no compile, link, run cycle.
When I was done, I copied the method out of the script and pasted it
into the actual ObjC class implementation file and compiled.
All I can say is that Joy is an aptly named piece of software...8-)
Brian
email@hidden
http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill
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