Re: Questions about gnome-objc?

[Florian Hars <fm5a014 math uni-hamburg de>]

On Wed, 13 May 1998, Dirk Luetjens wrote:

> I not sure, but I think the main advantage of Objective C is when using an
> Interface Builder where you can instantiate and connect objects on the
> fly.

The main advantage of ObjC and the NextStep classes when using an
interface builder is that the classes can serialize themselves: You just
build the widget hierarchy for your App and connect events to actions with
the IB, the IB sends the toplevel wigdet an encodeWithCoder: somecoder (or
something similar) and dumps the resulting text string to a file.

If the widgets are sufficiently powerfull your *whole* application code
then may look something like

#include <the usual stuff>

main () {
 Application myapp;

 myapp = [Application new];
 [myapp initFromFile: "filename" withCoder: somecoder];
 [myapp run];
}

(Its a long time since I last looked at ObjC, so I'm not sure about the
exact syntax and method names and things, but it is something similar).

If I remember correctly, serialization is another important thing gtk+
lacks.

Yours, Florian.
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