After 30+ years of text-based procedural programming, I'm now wrestling
with GUI-based OO programming, in the form of Cocoa, IB, and PB (not to
mention CamelBones :-).
Anyway, one of the things that has been getting in my way is the fact
that I have no text file which documents the relationships between the
objects (GUI and otherwise). So, I worked up a text file format in
which I can write these things down:
MainMenu.nib
------------
NSMenu
MainWindow.nib
--------------
NSWindow
Window <
NSTabView (Files, Kernel, ...)
delegate > MyWindowController
NSTabItem (id: Files)
NSTextField
PathName <
delegate > MyWindowController
NSBrowser
delegate > MyWindowController
NSTabView (Access, History, ...)
delegate > MyWindowController
NSTabItem (id: Files_Access)
NSScrollView
NSTableView (permission bits, mode, ...)
AccessCkpath <
datasource > MyWindowController
delegate > MyWindowController
NSScrollView
NSTextView
AccessHelp <
NSTabItem (id: Files_History)
...
I think this format looks promising, but I wonder if I'm reinventing
the wheel. Is there some tool in the Cocoa development suite that
will create a report with this sort of information? If not, do you
think one might be useful?
-r
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