Cocoa support

Trausti Thor Johannsson tj at quarksbar.net
Wed May 20 02:18:08 CDT 2009


Thanks,

Trausti

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Thorsten Hohage
<thohage at genericobjects.de>wrote:

> 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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>
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