Re: troubling article : a few real argument of my own.
Re: troubling article : a few real argument of my own.
- Subject: Re: troubling article : a few real argument of my own.
- From: Lloyd Dupont <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:18:00 +1000
even if I approve the guy (as you already saw) I should admit that he
has obviously be hasty in his judgment and has probably not finished
his cocoa book :-)
what he has done should be and is easy.
However I understand him, because there is one thing (other than the
mouse which is a real traumatic experience, at last was for me twice,
why Appple sell their PC with this stupid one button mouse by default ?
I wonder).
Anyway, the doc is awful. with such a bad doc I understand that it
takes times and you have to rely too much on oral tradition to learn
programming on Mac.
don't get me wrong the documentation text is not too bad (well, could
be better, find me a StartupItem example ? a DO example with
NSSocketPort ?), but it's hardly accessible.
before discovering the 'command' + double clic trick I was really upset
about the doc. Even though, it only work for imported framework. and no
thematic search. If I wonder about, let say, a way to get my IP address
I have to go to google to ind out (or donwload ifconfig as I did, BTW I
still wonder if there is an easy way)
NeXT had librarian, what happened to it ?
I tried Marshmallow Librarian, I don't know if I was unlucky, but I
were very disappointed by it.
Whereas windows documentatino (at last the one in the .NET framework or
in VS.NET) is really goo. 4 entry point. ALL API function searchable
all time (you don't have to compile your project first or other non
sense).
you could search through a table of content, a keyword/theme search, an
index search or use favorite.
And there is a clever usage of tab.
I long for such an application on Mac !
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