On 11 Dec 2013, at 17:20, Graham Cox <graham....@bigpond.com> wrote: > The documentation is sparse though <SNIP>...That’s my somewhat limited > understanding, not particularly well-informed by the docs, but appears to > work by experimentation.
The commonality of this experience makes me wonder almost with everything I try to do in Cocoa whether it really IS true as advertised that the pre-written APIs make it easier than writing your own raw code all the way down in C and Obj-C or whether the whole Cocoa edifice has turned into such a monster that for anyone except the seasoned expert, quite the reverse is true. It’s certainly seemed the case to me that I would have probably spent less time just writing my own code from scratch than I spend trying to figure out how half the methods I’m trying to use should be implemented. Of course, I always give in to Cocoa on the grounds that I figure I must be being stupid and missing the obvious and/or it’s inevitable that I’ll have to learn how to do it ‘the Cocoa way’ in the end. Still, you can’t help wondering… ;) _______________________________________________ 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
