Re: Newbie UI questions
Re: Newbie UI questions
- Subject: Re: Newbie UI questions
- From: m <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 03:59:19 -0700
On Jun 7, 2005, at 3:37 AM, Andy Bettis wrote:
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.
I appreciate the comment but I think in this case it's the final
effect I'm talking about rather than the underlying conceptual
framework (no pun intended).
[etc]
I understand. But this was your second post asking a newbie question
and citing PowerPlant as starting point of sorts. You sound very much
like me when I was making my transition, and I'm just trying to share
what/how I learned.
I am sort of gently recommending that you invest some effort into
actually learning Cocoa from the inside rather than going instantly
for the final effect. That will hopefully keep you from trying force
your Cocoa code into a PowerPlant/C++ paradigm. Better for you in the
long run (and its not actually that long a run).
More concretely though, have a look at NSFormatter. The Hillegas book
I pointed you at has a good section on how to use and write
formatters, BTW.
_murat
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