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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!afs!greg
- From: greg@afs.com (Gregory H. Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Interface builder Run mode
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.132759.17670@afs.com>
- Sender: greg@afs.com
- Reply-To: greg@afs.com
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 13:27:59 GMT
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- I tried mailing this, but I got back an error from my mailer:
-
- 554 rpomeroy@aunext3.cam.amd.com... Host aunext3 not known within the cam
- . amd . com domain
-
- Sorry for wasted bandwidth on what is essentially a personal response. I
- hope the information is of general relevance anyway.
- ========================================================================
- In comp.sys.next.programmer article <1992Sep4.014007.7808@dvorak.amd.com>
- rpomeroy@aunext3.cam.amd.com wrote:
- > But, now you've got more work than you started with - just to test
- > (test being the keyword here) your interface. Palettes are compiled
- > (yes/no?). What would really be cool is to have a runtime as powerful
- > as SmallTalk's. Just imagine - highlight a little Obj-C and "accept"
- > and presto! - A NeXTstep window magically appears in your screen...
-
- Yes, Palettes are compiled, but the temperature conversion algorithm is
- NOT one of the View object's methods. If you made a FahrenheitTextField
- with a "convertFromCelcius:sender" method, then the compiled Palette
- object could do what you want. We've slowly arrived at the conclusion that
- the more intelligence you build into the base objects, and the less you
- depend on application "glue", the better off you are.
-
- --
- Gregory H. Anderson | "We're very tolerant around here,
- Benevolent Dictator-for-Life | being only amateurs ourselves."
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