On Friday, July 5, 2002, at 12:45 PM, bob ackerman wrote:

> say camelbones doesn't do 'views' which limits are ability as well. not 
> ready for pryme tyme.

You've made similar comments in the past, and I'm wondering - how many 
people here see not being able to write custom controls in Perl as a 
major sticking point?

I my experience, I haven't needed many custom controls, as the ones 
provided by AppKit are very good. I'm also of the opinion that low level 
components like that are best written in the native language of the 
toolkit, for efficiency's sake. Finally, as others have already pointed 
out, most of the existing Cocoa docs are written with Objective-C in 
mind anyway, so realistically it's going to be hard to avoid learning it.

So, for various reasons, custom view classes in Perl have been pretty 
low on my priority list. If y'all see the lack of them as a major issue, 
though, I'm willing to figure out how to do it sooner, rather than 
later. For the most part, CamelBones as it is, does most of what I set 
out to do; database front-ends and a nice POD viewer that uses readable 
fonts. Where it goes from here depends a great deal on your feedback.

> at least we have each other ... and this list

That's a pretty big "at least," when you consider that pretty much 
everyone involved with CamelBones is on this list. :-)

sherm--

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