RE: Newbie interface questions - multiple "modal" windows
RE: Newbie interface questions - multiple "modal" windows
- Subject: RE: Newbie interface questions - multiple "modal" windows
- From: "Matthew Youney" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:41:42 -0400
- Importance: Normal
I have proceeded in the direction of the tab container today. Quite
(extremely) easy to do. Performance is fine. All of the Cocoa UI objects
seem very lightweight. I will probably "weigh things down" a bit with some
images, etc. later on. I do really like the look and feel of the Cocoa/Mac
UI, as do my customers, and the rest of the world I guess.
Also, as a side note:
The structure, documentation of Cocoa, as well as observation of this forum
has helped me to evolve (clean up) my OI technique, and hopefully take my
code to the next level. Although I have always been a very "hardware
oriented" programmer, and I am enjoying this experience. A bit of a
learning curve, but anything worth doing...
I just do not want to get into any bad habits early on here, and appreciate
any advice and/or criticism.
Thanks,
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Jens Alfke [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 4:35 PM
To: Matthew Youney
Cc: Graham Cox; Cocoa
Subject: Re: Newbie interface questions - multiple "modal" windows
On 17 Jun '08, at 7:30 AM, Matthew Youney wrote:
> This certainly can be easily done using a tab control. The downside
> is that
> the entire NIB is loaded at once, adversely affecting performance/
> resources.
Have you found this to be true in actual operation, or do you just
suspect that it would be slow? I think it would take a very complex
nib, with hundreds of controls, to cause an objectionable pause on
load. Especially since it sounds like you'd load this when the
application first launches and keep it around thereafter.
There are other valid reasons for using multiple nibs - it keeps them
simpler and easier to work with - but don't let premature optimization
alone dictate what you do.
-Jens
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