Re: Document App or not?
Re: Document App or not?
- Subject: Re: Document App or not?
- From: mmalcolm crawford <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 10:01:39 -0800
On Feb 8, 2004, at 8:35 AM, Moray Taylor wrote:
I think when you deciding on if you need a document based app, or a
non-document based one, the main issue is if the app will have
multiple instances of it's window's, i.e. iTunes does not have
multiple player windows, so it's not a Document based app, but OSX's
Mail does let you have multiple viewer windows, which would suggest
it's a document based app.
Umm, as far as I can tell on quick inspection, Mail is not
"document-based".
The main indicator is likely (loosely speaking) to be, will your
application open multiple windows, each of which is conceptually tied
to a file? In more general terms you might ask, will your application
take advantage of the design of the document architecture? If you're
writing an application that, say, presents data from a database, or a
messaging system (e.g. iChat), there is less likelihood that you'll
benefit from NSDocument et al.
mmalc
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