Re: Invoice program made in Objective c/Cocoa
Re: Invoice program made in Objective c/Cocoa
- Subject: Re: Invoice program made in Objective c/Cocoa
- From: Ilan Volow <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 11:32:44 -0400
WebKit+CSS is almost there for business reports, IMHO and I've had
some success in going this route. The main stumbling block I've
encountered is that WebKit (as far as I can tell) still lacks support
for a lot of the CSS3 paged media functionality, so I end up doing
PITA workarounds for stuff like page numbers that would have otherwise
been handled in CSS (e.g. going through PDFKit, piping output through
PrinceXML, etc).
-- Ilan
On May 15, 2009, at 10:10 AM, Robert Claeson wrote:
On 15 May 2009, at 14:51, Scott Ribe wrote:
In the end though, once you learn Cocoa and master your chosen
database &
access technology, you may find that although initial coding takes
a little
more time than 4D, that is far more than made up for in decreased
debugging
time from not working around 4D "quirks", and your end product is
more
robust with a richer and more thoroughly "Mac-like" interface.
I've been involved in writing business applications for Nextstep/
Openstep/Mac OS X for a fair number of years now. The main
disadvantage that plain Cocoa has over a 4G package such as 4D is
the lack of a decent, priceworthy reporting front-end that can be
used to easily and quickly design all sorts of printouts that has to
be made.
One can write them in code using NSView, which is tedious and
inflexible. Or one can use WebKit and use plain XHTML and CSS. Or
one can use XML and XSLT. Or one can spend a lot of time producing a
custom (or bespoke as we say in the UK) engine.
Robert
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