Re: Apple's Tools Strategy
Re: Apple's Tools Strategy
- Subject: Re: Apple's Tools Strategy
- From: David Catmull <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 21:11:18 -0700
On Oct 28, 2006, at 7:26 PM, Ross Tulloch wrote:
Don't bother - it just isn't worth the pain. I wouldn't go so far
as to say that PowerPlant is (now) a false economy - but it is very
close.
In the long run you'll simply spend more and more of your time
updating PP (or whatever) for new features in the OS that Apple is
already giving you support for in Cocoa. Plus, most classes in
Cocoa are much better designed than their MacApp/TCL/PP cousins
ever were. There is a huge productivity gain to be made if you take
advantage of this.
It would be great if our app were Cocoa, but it's not and we don't
have time to rewrite it right now. We can't just "wrap it in a Cocoa
GUI" because the structure of our app makes it more complicated than
that. But we can use Cocoa for certain parts right now. Carbon/Cocoa
integration has its limitations (as I've discovered in trying to make
cmd-` window switching work - I gave up), but it works in some cases
and we can go that route for anything where we need to take advantage
of some new OS feature. But I really don't see playing catch-up with
Cocoa as much of an issue because we don't need to cram every OS
feature into our app.
I won't deny that Cocoa is the future, but right now for us that's
mostly all it is. Carbon is still the present.
I didn't want to turn this into another Carbon vs Cocoa discussion. I
like them both.
--
David Catmull
email@hidden
http://www.uncommonplace.com/
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