Re: Equivelent to drawRect: for drawing after sub views are drawn
Re: Equivelent to drawRect: for drawing after sub views are drawn
- Subject: Re: Equivelent to drawRect: for drawing after sub views are drawn
- From: Shawn Erickson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 07:39:15 -0700
On Oct 8, 2004, at 2:38 AM, George Lawrence Storm wrote:
My #1 RANT: If Apple would open the Cocoa source like we had in
PowerPlant & MacApp it would make the job of following the code flow
much easier and I would have likely found a more elegant solution. The
lack of open source in Cocoa coupled with the erratic documentation
makes trouble shooting & design much more difficult, time consuming
and makes fully understanding the frameworks impossible. I am sure
that if we could trace through the code you would have a lot fewer
people scratching their heads over how to adopt bindings and probably
reduce the number of questions on this list by more than half.
Actually having code can often lead to applications/solutions depending
on a particular quirk of the implementation and not the definition of
the API. I have worked on applications using PP that have hit this
pitfall. So having source can be just as bad as not having it depending
on how you leverage it. It is better to depend on the definition/intent
of the API and not how it happens to be currently implemented.
If you have issues with documentation, etc. file defects (the
documentation for Cocoa is far far better then it has been).
Bindings is a new technology and the documentation is catching up
(actually rather well)... what really needs catching are developers
using a new way of thinking, that is the biggest hurdle to leveraging
bindings. It really is rather simple once it clicks. Looking at the
source of how it swizzles things, dispatches message, etc. would be
seeing the trees instead of the forest...
-Shawn
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