Re: MPMoviePlayerController
Re: MPMoviePlayerController
- Subject: Re: MPMoviePlayerController
- From: Jeffrey Walton <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:02:42 -0400
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Kyle Sluder <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Jeffrey Walton <email@hidden> wrote:
>> Below is the rabbit hole I went down trying to play a Movie. I would
>> give my left arm for a return code right about now. With a error code,
>> I could search for "MPMoviePlayerController play error 0xXXXXX" and
>> probably get dozens of questions/answers pertinent to my situation.
>
> I don't know what it is about Apple's documentation, but something
> about it trips everyone up when they first get to the platform. I'm
> certainly among that crowd. It's not that things aren't sufficiently
> documented; usually they are, with certain notable exceptions like
> Core Audio. Maybe it's that you really do need to be willing to make
> plenty of clicks in order to understand small facets of the thing
> you're looking at. On top of that, you really do need to understand
> the whole of a class before you can proficiently work with it. Just
> encountering methods that sound like they do the right thing rarely
> works; there's usually some required supporting infrastructure.
>
> Sorry this has frustrated you. But eventually everything starts making
> perfect sense. The Mac and iOS platforms really are some of the
> best-designed and most developer-friendly APIs in existence.
There's no need to apologize for Apple.
I see why good iPhone programmers are worth their weight in gold (and
so hard to find).
Jeff
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