Visible bindings
Monday 3 August 2009 - Filed under Uncategorized
Just noticed this: Two-Way Data Binding in Flex 4.
Flex is an SDK for building Flash apps that I know nothing about, but this article presents what looks like a rough equivalent of Cocoa Bindings, and it has one really nice property that Cocoa has always been missing – say what you want about specifying a UI with XML, but the Flex XML looked like it’d be relatively easy to scan, search and diff. I’ve always thought that a human-readable text format for Cocoa NIBs would be a big improvement.
2009-08-03 » mike
4 August 2009 @ 4:39 am
Isn’t the xib format readable enough?
4 August 2009 @ 6:58 am
Not really – I’m not comfortable merging two xibs by hand, for instance. It’s kind of understandable, but I guess what I really want is a source format that I can read and edit in text as well as in IB.