Re: Documentation frustrations
Re: Documentation frustrations
- Subject: Re: Documentation frustrations
- From: James Andrews <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 02:20:54 -0400
On Jul 9, 2005, at 2:05 AM, m wrote:
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>
Thank you for proving my point. This method(whatever you want to
call it) acts just like it would if it were declared in NSWindow.
Yet it's not in something that NSWindow inherits from like
NSResponder or NSObject, so looking at their docs don't tell you
anything. And there is no mention on the NSWindow page of there
being an NSWindowScripting protocol, which you think there would be
if there were methods there that were callable from the NSWindow object.
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.
I agree there is a lot to know, and not everybody needs to know all
of it, just enough to get by and do what they need, but when what is
suppose to be the Core Documentation is so disorganized and appears
to be incomplete because of it's organization it's really hard to
even do that.
Books like Aaron Hillegass' are indispensable for getting to that
"know enough to bootstrap the rest" stage.
I haven't picked that one up, I have a habit of reading OReilly books
as they were always a good source when I am doing web development
stuff, but their 2 books on learning Cocoa and Obj-C are lacking in a
few ways, the first being the fact that they are way out of date, the
other their sample projects are lacking in what I would consider
common tasks, and with Coredata out, I am waiting for Aaron to update
the book before I buy another out of date book. Hopefully that won't
be too long out...
James
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