Re: Carbon vs Cocoa
Re: Carbon vs Cocoa
- Subject: Re: Carbon vs Cocoa
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 21:34:07 +0000
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On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 02:51 PM,
email@hidden wrote:
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> How many people would freak if Apple replaced Cocoa's
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> current file primitive (POSIX file path or NSString) with
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> something equivalent to the FSRef?
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I would vote for consistency between Carbon and Cocoa and
I don't
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particularly care which way they to get consistency. OTOH,
I've gotten
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my conversion code down pat so this isn't as big a deal
anymore.
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Well here's the thing, depending which file primitive you
convert FROM will change the behavior of the application.
Personally I feel Apple's decision long ago to deprecate
toolbox functions which used file path arguments was an
excellent idea and led to a superior overall interface. Allowing
some apps (whether they be Cocoa or Swing or whatever) to
break this methodology reduces this advantage to nothing.
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