Re: Creating and App menu from Scratch

2008-07-14 Thread Bill Royds
le, for example Being able to do this would lead to an large increase in the number of Macintosh applications available. Bill Royds ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to

Re: Creating and App menu from Scratch

2008-07-14 Thread Bill Royds
On 14-Jul-08, at 09:20 , Kyle Sluder wrote: It would lead to a large increase in poorly-designed, auto-ported Mac applications. And then developers would wonder why nobody wants to purchase their software, even though the Windows version did so well. Not necessarily. You are assuming that al

Re: Creating and App menu from Scratch

2008-07-14 Thread Bill Royds
a failing of the Mac or its market, rather than an acknowledgment that just possibly the app itself was crap. Elitist as it may sound on first blush, the reality is that software tends to be better when the developer is required to think. Software is also worse when the developer has

Re: Creating and App menu from Scratch

2008-07-14 Thread Bill Royds
On 14-Jul-08, at 17:55 , Kyle Sluder wrote: I suppose the question I should be asking you is, who is your audience? What does your product do? Why do you want to auto-generate your user interface in a serialized object graph form from a textual template? That certainly wouldn't be my first c

Re: Dot Syntax docs missing?

2008-07-20 Thread Bill Royds
ficulty. I find that I use dot syntax for value (including property) extraction, while bracket for message passing. That makes my code easier to scan looking for calls versus value change. Bill Royds ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@

Re: Cocoa-dev Digest, Vol 5, Issue 1598

2008-09-10 Thread Bill Royds
On 10-Sep-08, at 04:59 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, if Mac software starts heading back down the road to everything having an installer, the appeal of the Mac platform vs. Windows will be severely diminished in my eyes. Drag and drop puts the user in control - installers put the user

Cocoa Installer classes

2008-09-11 Thread Bill Royds
On 11-Sep-08, at 05:53 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Neil Brewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: September 11, 2008 03:55:29 GMT-04:00 To: Cocoa Developers Subject: Re: OT: Installing Apps On 10 Sep 2008, at 20:41, Steven W Riggins wrote: I for one, being a Mac user since Feb, 1984, am dismay

Re: Mixing ObjC and C++ STL on same ObjC source file

2008-09-13 Thread Bill Royds
On 13-Sep-08, at 07:45 , Daniel Luis dos Santos wrote: That said, STL can be used only within a library's own code. Then when coding a shared library one must implement all kinds of data structures that can be used at the boundary. Isn't that like reinventing the wheel ? Yes. But that is