Re: Doubts on Cocoa document based architecture
Re: Doubts on Cocoa document based architecture
- Subject: Re: Doubts on Cocoa document based architecture
- From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 10:54:03 -0500
Anything that the document-based application gives you can be
implemented by yourself in a normal Cocoa application. However, the
document-based app template sets up a bunch of stuff for you, saving you
a bunch of work if you're making a document-based app. The question is,
is the app you want to write document-based? By document-based, I mean
capable of opening any kind of file and having it appear in a window,
and having the ability to have several of these windows open at a time.
Your app doesn't have to be a word processor to do this - you can look
at my app, Pacifist, which doesn't even save documents, only opens them,
yet it made sense to make it a document-based app, because I got things
for free such as multi-window, Open Recent, etc.
Perhaps if you told us what you're trying to do, someone could give you
a push in the right direction...
Charles
On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 10:13 AM, Vijayaprakash Vasudevan wrote:
On 4/11/02 23:54, "Vijayaprakash Vasudevan" wrote:
Hi all,
For the front end GUI design of a 3 tier client/server application with
Mac
OS X as client I need to decide between
Cocoa application and Cocoa Document based application.According to
coca
documentation it is advantageous to go for document bnased application
in
the following cases.
1. When the save status is to be tracked for undo and revert
functionality
2. When application preferences is to set.
3. When the data is entered in one window and populated in another
window.
Can't we implement these in Cocoa application with window controllers.
Is
it not possible to implement the save functionality in the first
reponders.
Kindly please tell me the exact advantage of document based
applications.
My application is not a for editing data. (Not a word processing or
spread
sheet application).
Please also tell me the functionalities that are coming for Free with
document based application.
Thanks ®ards
vijay
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