Re: Cocoa et al as HCI usability problem

2008-05-23 Thread Gérard Iglesias
Le 23/05/08 à 15:26, "Ilan Volow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : >IMHO Objective-C 2.0 looks like Apple's attempt to make Objective-C >competitive with existing scripting languages, given the addition of >the dot syntax for accessors and garbage collection changes. No scripting languages, maybe

Re: Trying to understand -- please help...

2008-05-21 Thread Gérard Iglesias
Le 21/05/08 à 19:03, "Clark Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : >On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Gérard Iglesias ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>with an empty NSArray (not very useful, since you can't add items to >>>an NSArray). Then, you leak

Re: Trying to understand -- please help...

2008-05-21 Thread Gérard Iglesias
>with an empty NSArray (not very useful, since you can't add items to >an NSArray). Then, you leak that allocated memory by setting cityArray >to an autoreleased NSArray In fact it is not leaking, it is just creating an object for nothing, it will be released by the autorelease pool, than no

Re: Trying to understand -- please help...

2008-05-21 Thread Gérard Iglesias
Well Something like this is standard : - (id)init { if (!(self = [super init])) return nil; cityArray = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects: @"New York" ..., nil]; return self; } would wor

Re: Cocoa et al as HCI usability problem

2008-05-21 Thread Gérard Iglesias
>denial of anything. Lowering the barriers to entry doesn't necessarily >serve them or their consumers better, it serves new developers who see >the iPhone as an opportunity but, obviously, there is no shortage of >people wanting to take advantage of that opportunity, so I'm not sure Good

Re: Cocoa et al as HCI usability problem

2008-05-20 Thread Gérard Iglesias
>I admit, there are lots of people who don't mind dangerous >programming environments. Some people even thrive on them. But me? >I've had enough of the danger. I've lived my life on the edge long >enough, and I'm ready for a nice, quiet language when it's available. Stay with the M$ way

Re: Cocoa et al as HCI usability problem

2008-05-19 Thread Gérard Iglesias
Hi, Sincerely, I am coding under windows with Win32/Qt/Corba/Lua and others for a living, I use MSDN every day, I read their example very often. Well Qt has a very usable API and a good documentation and good examples and we have access to the sources... But on the Win32/Microsoft front, I don