Re: Guidance for Cocoa's steep learning curve

FROM : mmalc crawford
DATE : Fri May 16 06:12:40 2008

On May 15, 2008, at 6:33 PM, Joseph Ayers wrote:

> The documentation absolutely sucks. How does one map table rows and 
> columns on NSMutableArrays and NSMutableDictionaries. How does one 
> map the Rows and Columns of a "dataSource" on a NSTable view?
>

And here's another increasingly prevalent problem: a claim that the 
documentation sucks and doesn't describe how to perform a particular 
task, and yet exactly that task is described in the documentation:

   <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSTableView_Class/Reference/Reference.html
>
->
   <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/TableView/TableView.html
>
->
   <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/TableView/Tasks/UsingTableDataSource.html
>

mmalc