Cocoa support

[Thorsten Hohage]

Hi Trausti,

On 2009-05-19, at 19:56, Trausti Thor Johannsson wrote:

> Then my question is about Cocoa.

as you know as was using REALbasic on a - hm, lets call it higher  
level - for several years.

Due to some more reasons I decided in the last summer that I do  
something "more naturally Mac" and bought in the first step the Aaron  
Hillegas book, sadly this lay around several months.

In November I started with Obj-C / Cocoa development and was blown  
away day by day. Of course speed was one experience, but ease of  
development, at least in the way I'm thinking (KVC, KVO, ...). So in  
December this app was ready to be installed on the clients machine.

I then started to port my framework (Dynamic Data Objects / Dynamic  
Business Objects) over from RB and start to build real apps. Somehow  
replacing CoreData concepts with my own design and heavily based on  
Valentina - using ALL this nice Valentina stuff like Properties, many  
ObjPtr fields, triggers, ... and I'm really, really happy again, Cocoa  
is the tool I dreamed several years of, so I can say go for it!


Of course, you're right, the docs are not the best ones and several  
things are missing, BUT you should be able to use e.g. the RB  
reference pdf and simply "translate" it o Cocoa. Furthermore you'll  
get the very well documented header files and these are worth a look,  
too. So it shoud not be so hard to starte with Valentina-Cocoa  
development for an experienced RB-Valentina-developer.



Feel free to contact me of-list and I'm going to send you some code  
from my new apps and give you some further tips and hints what to do  
and what NOT to do.


regards,

Thorsten Hohage
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Valentina Technology Evangelist
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