Re: Cocoa et al as HCI usability problem

2008-05-23 Thread Gérard Iglesias
Le 23/05/08 à 15:26, Ilan Volow [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : IMHO Objective-C 2.0 looks like Apple's attempt to make Objective-C competitive with existing scripting languages, given the addition of the dot syntax for accessors and garbage collection changes. No scripting languages, maybe Java

Re: Cocoa et al as HCI usability problem

2008-05-21 Thread Gérard Iglesias
denial of anything. Lowering the barriers to entry doesn't necessarily serve them or their consumers better, it serves new developers who see the iPhone as an opportunity but, obviously, there is no shortage of people wanting to take advantage of that opportunity, so I'm not sure Good

Re: Trying to understand -- please help...

2008-05-21 Thread Gérard Iglesias
Well Something like this is standard : - (id)init { if (!(self = [super init])) return nil; cityArray = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects: @New York ..., nil]; return self; } would

Re: Trying to understand -- please help...

2008-05-21 Thread Gérard Iglesias
with an empty NSArray (not very useful, since you can't add items to an NSArray). Then, you leak that allocated memory by setting cityArray to an autoreleased NSArray In fact it is not leaking, it is just creating an object for nothing, it will be released by the autorelease pool, than no

Re: Cocoa et al as HCI usability problem

2008-05-19 Thread Gérard Iglesias
Hi, Sincerely, I am coding under windows with Win32/Qt/Corba/Lua and others for a living, I use MSDN every day, I read their example very often. Well Qt has a very usable API and a good documentation and good examples and we have access to the sources... But on the Win32/Microsoft front, I