Wow! - not having looked at Cocoa, that's quite something. Of course one could knock up an extension method to do the same thing, but that's not the point youre making.
Do you think there is a case for RS developing a new framework ? One that maybe replicates Cocoa but on all platforms?. Would there be places where the way the current RB framework currently works is actually better than the "Cocoa" way? On 5/1/07 14:59, "Theodore H. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Folderitems are over complex. Why have binarystream and text streams? > They are the same thing. RB enforces some crazy model where you > "aren't supposed" to use absolute paths, despite that everyone else > in the world does it. Or at least they use relative paths instead. > Aliases (getsaveinfo) are on the way out, they are a totally outdated > concept, bloated, not portable. Relative paths are the simpler more > modern way that works everywhere. But RB has no concept of a current > directory or a relative path, at least not a proper one. I wish RB > would just do file paths the Unix way, but their getfolderitem > doesn't allow for relative paths!!! Ridiculous. > > In Cocoa, I can do something like this: > > dim s as string > > s = "file data" > s.WriteTo "/path/to/file.txt" > > That's it. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
