I have proceeded in the direction of the tab container today. Quite (extremely) easy to do. Performance is fine. All of the Cocoa UI objects seem very lightweight. I will probably "weigh things down" a bit with some images, etc. later on. I do really like the look and feel of the Cocoa/Mac UI, as do my customers, and the rest of the world I guess.
Also, as a side note: The structure, documentation of Cocoa, as well as observation of this forum has helped me to evolve (clean up) my OI technique, and hopefully take my code to the next level. Although I have always been a very "hardware oriented" programmer, and I am enjoying this experience. A bit of a learning curve, but anything worth doing... I just do not want to get into any bad habits early on here, and appreciate any advice and/or criticism. Thanks, Matt -----Original Message----- From: Jens Alfke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 4:35 PM To: Matthew Youney Cc: Graham Cox; Cocoa Subject: Re: Newbie interface questions - multiple "modal" windows On 17 Jun '08, at 7:30 AM, Matthew Youney wrote: > This certainly can be easily done using a tab control. The downside > is that > the entire NIB is loaded at once, adversely affecting performance/ > resources. Have you found this to be true in actual operation, or do you just suspect that it would be slow? I think it would take a very complex nib, with hundreds of controls, to cause an objectionable pause on load. Especially since it sounds like you'd load this when the application first launches and keep it around thereafter. There are other valid reasons for using multiple nibs - it keeps them simpler and easier to work with - but don't let premature optimization alone dictate what you do. -Jens _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
