Re: Newbie Gorm Question

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at 03:25  pm, Wim Oudshoorn wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 07:14:27AM -0800, Gregory Casamento wrote:
> > --- Wim Oudshoorn <woudshoo@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > > The "Add Outlet/Action" only works when you have selected
> > > the outlet/action symbol next to your custom class.
> > >
> > > I have to say that this is highly non-intuitive.
> >
> > This is very much how InterfaceBuilder functions under OPENSTEP 4.2.  
> > Mac OS X
> > functions a little differently.   The only option is to create two 
> > seperate
> > menu item and have them add an outlet or an action respectively.   
> > The problem
> > then becomes that you still need to name the outlet/action.
>
> Well, even if it works like this in IB on OS4.2 I still
> find it non-intuitive :-).

I agree.

> I think it would be better to have two menu items.
> When you click on one you see, or should see the
> action/outlet appear and the focus should be on
> the newly created `thing'.
>
> Also, I think that a Class inspector, where you
> can create delete outlets/actions would
> also be a nice addition.  I feel it is more in line
> with the philosophy of Gorm.  You create something,
> select something, and can view/edit the object in
> the Inspector.

That's the way it used to work in Gorm ... and it was indeed (IMO)
much easier to use.  If I ever get time I'll re-implement it
(it might be possible to recover the old code from CVS
and use it as the basis for a new implementation).

NeXTstep used to work that way also, and now Apple has
reverted to something more like that after trying the OS4.2
way.