Re: Learning Curve/Documentation Challenge/Recommendation

FROM : Steve Weller
DATE : Sat May 17 17:09:43 2008

On May 17, 2008, at 7:19 AM, Hamish Allan wrote:

> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 3:03 PM, colo <<email_removed>> wrote:
>

>> F-Script [...] gives you the code to Create a window from scratch
>> and logically place the buttons on the window by coordinates. That
>> kind of "knowing" how to make a window without IB is priceless to me
>> imo.

>
> I know you're never going to believe us about this, but it would be
> much more valuable for you to stop fighting the Cocoa way and forget
> about constructing windows in code until you absolutely need to...
>
> Hamish


Of course, but that is not what is going on here.

He's quite happy to walk across the floor, but knowing how the floor 
is constructed adds enormously to his confidence of doing so. Don't 
forget this is an unfamiliar building, a type of which he has not 
encountered before.

It's a different learning and understanding style that cannot be 
dismissed by calling it fighting. If he were to refuse to touch 
anything but the green tiles and make bridges out of chairs and tables 
to sustain that, well that would certainly be fighting.