Re: [TFUI] Re: UI Guidelines and Acceptance Testing

Chris Hanson wrote:
 
> You don't need to bother with event-driven
> programming in Cocoa. 

What do you hear when I say "event driven"?

> There 
> is an event loop, but generally it's at a lower
> level of abstraction 
> than most people work with.  Controls will directly
> invoke actions in 
> controller objects, you generally don't have to
> worry about it.
> 
> Most people writing Cocoa applications use Interface
> Builder -- the 
> "form painter" as you call it -- to build most of
> their application's 
> interface.  That's because it's really a system for
> wiring up, 
> archiving, and unarchiving fully wired-up object
> graphs.  It's not a 
> code generator, it saves you from writing reams of
> boring code just to 
> put up windows, connect controls to controllers,
> etc.

To review esthetic details of run-time generated
behavior, don't run the finished app. Put another way,
don't let a healthy and full-featured form painter
detract from the importance of your reveal() test
fixture.

> The Cocoa tutorials lead people to Interface Builder
> quickly because 
> Interface Builder is what professional Cocoa
> developers use to lay out 
> their applications' interfaces.  It's not a newbie
> tool that gets 
> outgrown.  You can of course write code to generate
> interfaces.  
> Interface Builder isn't doing anything that you
> can't do in your own 
> code.

The majority of esthetic details - the ones not
generated by internal logic - should be painted.

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Phlip
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