Re: troubling article
Re: troubling article
- Subject: Re: troubling article
- From: Sherm Pendley <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:38:54 -0400
On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 12:14 AM, Jim Crafton wrote:
Is there *ever* a use case
where creating a new class that I would *not* want to create the
associated .h and .m files?
Yes. If you're using Perl, Ruby, Python, or some other non-standard
language for your Cocoa development, then you won't need Objective-C
source files.
- More components. Particularly database components
EOF, thou art sorely missed. ;-(
- Some form of "intelli-sense" (for lack of a better term), i.e. the
ability for the editor to drop down a list of potential methods for a
class, arguments to a function/message, etc
Perhaps I'm just weird, but I like PB precisely because it does *not*
have that kind of hand-holding. I do understand, though, that quite a
few folks do like it. I only hope that, when or if Apple decides to add
these features, they also include a way to turn them off.
- Expanding the IDE - is this possible with Project Builder ? Can
someone else write a different code editor ? A different toolchain (i.e.
could it be setup to use a different compiler/linker)? Adding custom
Project Buidler templates, adding custom code macros or snippets, or any
kind of plugin that can expand some set of the IDE's functionality.
The latest PB can apparently (I'm stuck on 10.1 - long story...) be
configured to use an external editor. Presumably, the default is
whatever App you've configured to open the relevant extensions.
Project and file templates are trivially simple to add - just create a
new project or file(s) and drop them into the /Developer/ProjectBuilder
Extras/ folder.
You'll notice that the "Extras" folder also has a plug-ins subfolder -
I've found virtually no documentation on writing PB plug-ins, but it's
possible. Bill Bumgarner wrote one that enables CVS over SSH, and I find
it quite useful. Beats me how he wrote it, though.
Also, there's a /Developer/Makefiles folder with lots of interesting
stuff in it - but again, there's more or less no docs at all that I can
see.
sherm--
If you listen to a UNIX shell, can you hear the C?
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