On May 5, 2013, at 11:33 PM, YT <y...@redwoodcontent.com> wrote: > This past week I've been totally focused on learning how to write code that > uses the Quartz 2D library and so totally forgot the MVC design pattern. > Plus I've read about the MVC pattern it in the docs but have not configured > one myself in Cocoa.
It takes a bit of practice to get into the MVC mindset: sometimes it can feel like creating unnecessary levels of abstraction, but it's worth it. One good way to think about it is as if you were splitting yourself into a whole team of engineers. Put yourself in the shoes of the guy/gal who doesn't know anything about graphics or UI programming but needs to implement the core "thing" your app is about, and design the API s/he would implement, that the UI programmer(s) can then use as a black box and build the interface to. And as always, I highly recommend the book "Design Patterns" by Gamma et al, which is a recipe book of these sorts of techniques — MVC is one of the best-known ones, but there are dozens of them. —Jens _______________________________________________ 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
