Re: [ANN] NSTableView Assistant
Re: [ANN] NSTableView Assistant
- Subject: Re: [ANN] NSTableView Assistant
- From: "M. Uli Kusterer" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 14:06:08 +0200
At 21:57 Uhr -0400 14.06.2003, Andy Satori wrote:
I've been working on something similar but from a different
different direction. My project isn't ready for general usage yet,
but it's generating Cocoa Java or Objective C collections, that
optionally support NSCoding and / or NSTableView datasource methods,
That's an interesting approach. I guess such a collection is more of
a byproduct in NSTV-Assistant...
but unlike this tools, doesn't even attempt to wire to the NIB, nor
does it attempt to push it's results in and out of Project Builder.
Getting stuff into Project Builder is something I'd really like to
do... It'd be cool if someone knew how I can detect the frontmost
project and add files to it. I've peeked at the example scripts a
little, but it didn't help any :-(
My gripe is that I'm having to tie it to a specific DB, in this case
I'm targeting OpenBase for phase I, I might add Oracle, and perhaps
Postgres as a phase II or III. I *really* wish the ODBC drivers for
OS X were more readily available and supported, and a nice Cocoa C
wrapper for the ODBC engine would be huge.
I'm not really doing much database stuff right now, so you probably
have yourself a very nice niche of the "market". My main reason for
building this assistant was that it's so much code you have to write
for custom cells, and the fact that in most of my apps, I had at
least one table where the user could specify settings, re-arrange
objects or whatever.
Although Cocoa's way of integrating this very generic table view
class with the actual data is very elegant, I was becoming quite
annoyed having to write the same code over and over, and I
occasionally took shortcuts to avoid having to write more custom
cells.
With NSTV-Assistant, I just fire it up and I have my table with all
the features I need at the click of a button.
--
Cheers,
M. Uli Kusterer
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