Re: Newbie UI questions
Re: Newbie UI questions
- Subject: Re: Newbie UI questions
- From: m <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 01:40:23 -0700
On Jun 7, 2005, at 1:09 AM, Andy Bettis wrote:
It's me again, switching from PowerPlant to Cocoa.
A large number of my apps use dialogs for data input and editing,
and so I use a lot of text edit fields. With PP I can set maximum
content sizes, key filters for controlling allowable characters,
and text traits for font name, size, style, etc. Are there
equivalents for these in Cocoa?
[etc]
Hi Andy,
I used to do a lot of work in PowerPlant as well. In my transition to
Cocoa I found that it was best not to try to understand Cocoa by
leveraging my understanding of PowerPlant. Conceptually, Cocoa and
PowerPlant aren't completely orthogonal, but if you stick too close
to PowerPlant as a guide, you miss out on the idioms that the dynamic
nature of Objective-C affords and that Cocoa exploits to good
advantage. I found my progress to be a lot quicker once I "let go" of
the C++/PowerPlant mindset.
Much better is to grab a book like this one: <http://www.amazon.com/
exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0321213149/qid=1118133304/sr=8-1/
ref=pd_csp_1/102-6329441-3620130?v=glance&s=books&n=507846>
and have a go.
_murat
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