Re: Only One Reason to ever use Transient Properties in Core Data

2009-05-20 Thread Jerry Krinock
On 2009 May 20, at 18:45, Kyle Sluder wrote: Your desire for hard and fast rules disturbs me. There are not distinct use cases for every technology. Transient properties are useful for certain things, often as a component of some larger trade- off. Thanks, Kyle. I'm trying to identify

Re: Only One Reason to ever use Transient Properties in Core Data

2009-05-20 Thread Sean McBride
Jerry Krinock (je...@ieee.org) on 2009-05-20 9:32 PM said: >Thanks, Mike. I see the advantages you get from making them transient >are -- > >1. Knowing that you saved your users a little hard disk space. >2. Not having to clear their values when the document is reloaded. Why do you put "a litt

Re: Only One Reason to ever use Transient Properties in Core Data

2009-05-20 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Jerry Krinock wrote: > Are there any other advantages? Your desire for hard and fast rules disturbs me. There are not distinct use cases for every technology. Transient properties are useful for certain things, often as a component of some larger trade-off. Why

Re: Only One Reason to ever use Transient Properties in Core Data

2009-05-20 Thread Jerry Krinock
On 2009 May 20, at 01:29, Mike Abdullah wrote: I find transient attributes extremely useful sometimes for properties which you want in the undo stack, but not persisted to disk. For example data caches, or session-specific UI properties. Thanks, Mike. I see the advantages you get from mak

Re: Only One Reason to ever use Transient Properties in Core Data

2009-05-20 Thread Mike Abdullah
I find transient attributes extremely useful sometimes for properties which you want in the undo stack, but not persisted to disk. For example data caches, or session-specific UI properties. Mike. On 20 May 2009, at 04:20, Jerry Krinock wrote: After working through another issue caused by m

Only One Reason to ever use Transient Properties in Core Data

2009-05-19 Thread Jerry Krinock
After working through another issue caused by my use of a transient property, I just searched the whole Core Data Programming Guide for "transient". I found four disadvantages of using transient properties vs. one advantage. The advantage is not having to write custom accessor methods to