What Fritz said. Unlike other graphical UI layout tools, Interface Builder is central to Cocoa development, not simply a shortcut for newbies or a way to get started quickly. Anyone who thinks developing without Interface Builder is a purer path to understanding Cocoa has already missed the point.
_murat On May 1, 2012, at 7:50 AM, Fritz Anderson wrote: > On 1 May 2012, at 2:28 AM, ecir hana wrote: > >> If nothing else, it would explain to me how things works, 20 lines of >> code would help me better than 20 documentation pages. There tutorials >> above certainly did the explaining very well. > > Every few months, a beginner comes who wants to skip NIBs to "see how it > works." Please understand why experienced developers advise against this, > even though they understand the impulse. > > NIBs _are_ how it works. They don't contain or generate code. They don't > contain or generate scripts. They don't exercise much of the API you're > trying to use. They contain archived objects and their connections. > > Their effects can (often) be mimicked in code, but by the same token, > Objective-C can be mimicked in assembly. It is useful to understand a bit of > assembly when you use a high-level language, but except in special > circumstances, nobody advocates writing programs in it. And in the case of > compiling Objective-C, at least the translation passes (notionally) through > assembly code. > > Similarly, it is useful to understand how NIBs are reconstituted into > objects, but one must understand that the underlying mechanism is > reconstitution, not executing code that simulates reconstitution. Unlike the > translation of a high-level language, there is no executable layer through > which reconstitution passes. (At least in the sense you mean.) > > NOTE: On iOS, it is frequently useful to build object hierarchies in code, > but the Cocoa Touch API is designed to make that easy. Even there, most > designs take the form of reconstituting objects from NIBs. > > — F > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/mlist0987%40gmail.com > > This email sent to mlist0...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
