Cocoa beginnings
Egh, I'm at least starting to feel like I'm getting the handle on this whole cocoa thing. Some parts of it just really take awhile to sink in. I'm hoping it's one of those "It's hard to get, but once you grok it it all works the same way" type of thing.
So far I'm a little discouraged, but hopeful. Cocoa just seems to be in a large state of transition- its often hard to tell what is threadsafe and what isn't, and doing some basic stuff (such as tableviews) just seems like it could be handled in a much simpler, more thought-out way. It often just feels tacked-on, ie, I'm not getting that feeling I love to get where you feel as though the designers were one step ahead of you in knowing what you'd want and have it right there waiting for you.
I am aware though that much of my frustration is probably due to my own ignorance on the subject, and feeling like I have to hunt & peck for hours in various places to get the fairly simple nugged of information I am after. With cocoa's limited base, it's also harder to research "what would be the easiest way to do x" in it. Grr.
Oh, and drawers in interface builder are often just really weird. It took me a few hours of experimenting to really get a handle on what the different combinations do, and that just peeves me.
Posted by drunkenbatmanAugust 25, 2003, at 11:45 PM
