Newbie Questions (components, databases, and parsing)
Newbie Questions (components, databases, and parsing)
- Subject: Newbie Questions (components, databases, and parsing)
- From: James Derry <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 16:47:52 -0400
Hi all,
I'm a new Cocoa programming (still learning, really) with a lot of
Windows/Delphi experience (okay, VB but that doesn't count). More on that in
the bit... Now a couple of questions I hope some kind soul can help with:
(1) Are there any good, comprehensive sites for IB Cocoa components, by
which I mean classes that are already built and can be added to IB/Cocoa
programs? I've run into a few of them out there, but everybody hosts their
own and they're hard to find unless you know what you're looking for. I hate
to compare (and I'm NOT trolling!), but for Delphi there are HUGE sites
(like the Delphi Super Page) with thousands of ready-to-use classes.
Something like that for Cocoa would be GREAT. Any ideas?
(2) Lately there's been a lot of talk on this list about the Enterprise
Objects Framework. If it's what I think it is, then I have my answer to this
question: is there no database-independent way to access locally- and
server-hosted databases in a generic manner? The Delphi equivalent would be
the Borland Database Engine (BDE) for example. It's completely independent
of the database as long as ODBC is present, and even interfaces "natively"
with certain databases.
(3) Is it worth it to learn ANTLR, yacc, and/or bison to try building an
HTML/CSS parser? Would the C++ code they generate work on an OS X box
without installing extra libraries? I've tried and tried (and tried!)
looking for some good, free source for this purpose, but everything assumes
that the HTML code is well-formed. I could write my own parser/"tree-walker"
but I'm hoping someone else already went through that trouble!
Thanks for your help and patience! And if this shows up multiple times,
sorry -- some trouble with my mail account name and my subscription name
here!
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