Re: More general question related to : How do you set the text in an NSTextView?
Re: More general question related to : How do you set the text in an NSTextView?
- Subject: Re: More general question related to : How do you set the text in an NSTextView?
- From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 11:16:59 -0700
On May 9, 2010, at 7:46 AM, Bill Hernandez <email@hidden>
wrote:
The reason I ask insights on how to proceed, is that Cocoa is so
massive that you could spend years reading before you actually wrote
any code.
I think the insight here is the same one I had a few years ago: it is
insufficient to read the documentation piecemeal. Because Cocoa often
presents entire suites of related objects, the documentation for the
entire subsystem must be taken as a whole.
If you are dealing with NSTextView, you best have read *all* text-
system-related documentation. Likewise for NSManagedObject: you'd
better have read the entirety of the Core Data docs. This is
especially true for the conceptual docs.
Software is not easy. I was unsuccessful with my Cocoa efforts until I
just sat with the documentation and read every method and every
conceptual discussion of every class that I was dealing with.
Successful software will not come about by following a recipe approach
of "okay, now I need to insert text, let me find an insert text
method. Okay now I need to change its color, let me find a change
color method…"
--Kyle Sluder_______________________________________________
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