On Oct 18, 2010, at 11:38 PM, Sandro Noël wrote:
> The "framework" is built as a template application from which 
> classe/functions can be overloaded to fit the needs of the being built 
> application.
> not much of an architecture if you ask me but i have to document it none the 
> less.

Isn't that what a framework is?  A bunch of classes whose methods are intended 
to be overridden?

Anyway -- as a user of a framework, if I understand what functionality a class 
is supposed to encapsulate, and the purpose of each of its public methods, I 
usually shouldn't care which methods call which other methods.  That's an 
implementation detail, though sometimes it *is* useful and even important to 
know.

When diving into a body of code I didn't write, I sometimes find it a challenge 
to see the big picture.  The last time I did this I wish I had thought to look 
at the class hierarchy in Xcode using Project -> Class Browser.  You can tell 
it to only show your project's classes.  Protocols and categories are also 
listed.  Maybe that would help in your situation?

--Andy

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