Re: Xcode does seem hard on newbies(was Xcode release notes)
Re: Xcode does seem hard on newbies(was Xcode release notes)
- Subject: Re: Xcode does seem hard on newbies(was Xcode release notes)
- From: j o a r <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 19:36:41 +0200
On 2004-08-05, at 19.15, Ray Peterson wrote:
> well, painting a window in interface builder is fairly
> straight forward and writing basic programs in xcode
> is not too difficult after a couple of the online
> tutorials.
>
> connecting these together seems to be the most
> daunting part for me.
Just keep at it for a while, sooner than you'd expect you'll get the
hang of it.
> creating an 'appController' subclass of NSObject,
> instantiating it, creating files for it, control
> dragging back and forth and then setting outlets and
> target/actions just does not seem elegant or
> accessable to me.
The integration between Xcode and IB could be better, but it's actually
pretty good once you get the hang of it, and understand what's going
on. Do you have an idea for an alternative approach? Doing it all in
code (which is possible of course), is definitively much more difficult
(especially to maintain).
> i suspect that some of the problems lie in the
> model/view/controller concepts. i don't think i buy
> the idea of controllers as objects. it seems like
> someone got 'object happy' and is trying to jam
> generic procedural code into an object. while this
> might be big picture elegant (i.e. everything's an
> object), at the design/coding level it seems to
> obscure the significant differences between procedural
> code and object/method code. every example of
> controllers i've seen so far are just big event loops
> just with different language around it(i.e. it's and
> object sending messages instead of a big 'case'
> statement calling procedures and functions).
You're simply dead wrong on this one. Of course controllers are
objects, just like all the other pieces in the Cocoa toolkit. It's
absolutely not a bad place to use objects - it's a very good place to
use OOP.
j o a r
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