The problem with bindings
The problem with bindings
- Subject: The problem with bindings
- From: Drew McCormack <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:13:15 +0200
I'm no bindings layer expert, but the little time I have spent using
them, I have found them quite difficult to grasp. Much more so than the
outlet-target approach.
I usually find that if things go well with bindings, I really can save
that '300 lines of code' that everyone talks about, but when things go
wrong, I can spend hours tracking down the problems, effectively
negating any benefit I may have gained. Furthermore, easy things, like
populating a table view with values, are well documented, and can be
achieved very efficiently with bindings. But try to go a bit deeper,
and do something not in the manual, and it requires a considerable
commitment.
Basically, it comes down to this: bindings are very hard to debug. You
can't set a breakpoint, so you are left guessing at what is happening
based on an obscure error message from an exception thrown deep in the
Cocoa frameworks. Anyone else have this problem?
Drew
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Drew McCormack
www.maniacalextent.com
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