Re: Documentation frustrations
Re: Documentation frustrations
- Subject: Re: Documentation frustrations
- From: m <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 23:05:36 -0700
On Jul 8, 2005, at 10:52 PM, James Andrews wrote:
Here's a great example. (from someone who doesn't understand the
basics).......
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/
ApplicationKit/ObjC_classic/Classes/NSWindow.html
The docs for NSWindow class.
"- (void) setIsVisible(bool)flag" is not listed on the page, but
yet is part of the class as it is listed in Cocoa in a Nutshell,
and I have it working in my app to hide my window.
setIsVisible is not declared in NSWindow. It's declared in the
NSWindowScripting protocol.
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/
ApplicationKit/ObjC_classic/Protocols/NSWindowScripting.html#//
apple_ref/doc/uid/20000674-3357>
I think what some of this boils down to is that there is a lot to
know, and that a critical mass of knowledge is required before you
can effectively bootstrap the rest. Books like Aaron Hillegass' are
indispensable for getting to that "know enough to bootstrap the rest"
stage.
Which reminds me of a common criticism of the old "Inside Macintosh"
series: "You have to know everything before you can know anything".
Wasn't exactly true but it sure felt like it.
_murat
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