Yep I should have mentioned that I meant the manual as more of a reference as opposed to a set of tutorials. That said, I do want to include complete examples that demonstrate the concepts included. I guess I'll need to start thinking of practical things that can be done minimally. Perhaps like a defaults browser implemented NSBrowser, or an image viewer to demonstrate NSImage, or something of a very simple spreadsheet with NSMatrix and some NSTextFieldCell's. One thing I should document more closely is drag and drop.
My main aim was to write something that documented the AppKit at a developer's level, something that people can use to achieve common taks, not just a class reference. I've tried to assume that the person has/can read the GNUstep base manual, which explains Objective-C and how you can use it quite thoroughly. I didn't want to focus too much on explaining selectors, informal/formal protocols, etc. It would be nice to combine some people's tutorials on such subject matter (I know alot of people have written stuff explaining Objective-C), but I didn't want to replicate the work already done. Oh and by the way, I didn't mean to exclude anyone with my New year's greeting :-) Cheers Chris On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 10:12 +1000, Lloyd Dupont wrote: > I browsed quickly throught it. Looks nice! > > However according to you requirement of: "I'm > trying to aim this thing at people who don't have much experience with > Objective-C or Cocoa/OpenStep but who want to start developing > applications quickly" > > I would suggest you have less theory and more simple sample program. > > When learning a new language I usually like to write/compile/run a simple > program > (hello world?) and then (second) get the theory behind what I did. > > Then goes on a more complex sample and, again, after I tweaked it by guess > browsing the documentation, read the theory again. And so on.... > > And I will try to have an happy new year, even though you excluded me from > your wich target ;-) > > > > Regards, > Lloyd Dupont > > NovaMind development team > NovaMind Software > Mind Mapping Software > <www.nova-mind.com> -- Christopher Armstrong <carmstrong at fastmail dot com dot au> _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
