On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Andy Lee<ag...@mac.com> wrote:
> My first reaction was: "Elegantly put!" But then I thought, isn't *not*
> generating this kind of code one of the reasons we tell people nibs are good?
> Wouldn't a .m be a good place to "document" targets and actions as well?
> And delegates and other outlets? Or do you think there's something about
> bindings that makes them subtle enough that for *them*, in some cases, it
> might make sense to "document" them by coding them?
If you've decided that it will be better for the long-term health of
your application to document your bindings, it really isn't that hard
to do it in code rather than a text file. I mean how is this:
nameTextField.value -> [Array Controller].arrangedObjects.name
|- Value Transformer: CapitalizeTransformer
|- Null Placeholder: <null>
|- Multiple values placeholder: <multiple selection>
all that different from this:
- (void)awakeFromNib {
[nameTextField bind:@"value" toObject:arrayController
withKeyPath:@"arrangedObjects.name" options:
[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
@"CapitalizeTransformer", NSValueTransformerNameBindingOption,
@"<null>", NSNullPlaceholderBindingOption,
@"<multiple selection>", NSMultipleValuesPlaceholderBindingOption, nil]];
}
The important point is that your binding setup needs to get
complicated enough to warrant documentation in the first place -- from
there the extra effort required to get your documentation to compile
is trivial compared to the effort of documentation in the first place.
Target-action setups rarely get this complicated; most of the time
you just wire up your controls to First Responder.
--Kyle Sluder
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