Re: Has their been a Sketch App Update

FROM : colo
DATE : Wed Jan 16 18:07:51 2008

Hmm, sad client. But I get this a lot on projects as well. And it even
comes from me to. Like cocoa apps tend to have the same contex menus
and font palates.
My beef with a simple framework just derives from when someone made a
HUD framework so their could be a somewhat standards. But now we have
that HUD window. But it does not stop apple from making different ones
in their pro apps

So I just at least thought someone might have run into this story
already, but it seems to not be the case. To tell you the truth, I am
contemplating building this in Flex AS3 instead, for nothing else to
say that their AS3 is well documented and accessible already, compared
to wafting through the scant few new docs for Obj-c 2
and then hacking at this demo app, or just waiting for the new book on
the horizon in several months.

But that said, I am still on the fence, cause a real cocoa build would
be faster i guess.

Back to hunting



On Jan 16, 2008 10:40 AM, I. Savant <<email_removed>> wrote:
> >  I had a similar discussion with a client who simply couldn't see why
> > - if Cocoa is so modern and powerful - it would be so hard to add
> > Adobe Illustrator-like functionality to an application that already
> > draws graphs. I mean, the lines are already there, right? Why can't
> > you drag them with a mouse and modify them?
>
>  I should clarify this. ;-) He (the client) insisted that since the
> bars and pie wedges were already drawn, being a Cocoa app, they should
> automatically be editable. After all, in his mind an individual wedge
> or bar was an object. It was drawn, right? Why can't it now be dragged
> somewhere?
>
>  He failed to specify in his requirements that he expected that to be
> the case (expected the graphs to be editable in that pieces can be
> dragged around, etc.), therefore he was surprised when a) it didn't
> work like that and, b) adding that functionality would add significant
> time and expense because it changed the scope and complexity of the
> application.
>
>  It was not a pleasant meeting.
>
> --
> I.S.
>