Re: How viable is Cocoa development?

FROM : Steve Gehrman
DATE : Fri Jan 25 23:45:46 2002

> Actually, Apple is doing a *lot* of Cocoa development.  Come and
> hear about it at WWDC ;-)

Apple does Cocoa development, but the additional interface widgets and
bug fixes they add to Cocoa have not been released to third party
developers.  We should be seeing new versions of Cocoa on a monthly
schedule, every 6 months to a year isn't going to cut it.  My
development is extremely hampered by either Cocoa bugs or  lack of
features.  Look at the NSToolbar, or NSBrowser, they both need serious
subclassing to be included in a professional product.

Look at iPhoto.  Every button they use is non standard Cocoa, why can't
I have access to those buttons.  Why can't I have brushed steel windows?

Also I doubt iPhoto is using NSImageView to draw it's images.  The built
in jpg/tiff imaging engines are very slow, too slow to create something
like iPhoto.  Why don't we have access to this imaging code.

I still love Cocoa, but developer need more, and they need it now. Cocoa
is still beta in some respects.  New objects should be continually
released and old ones should be continually enhanced.

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Steve Gehrman
CocoaTech
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