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Jim Mackraz writes
> Robert D. Nicholson writes
> > Does NeXT's Interface Builder impose a rigid design on applications?
> > 
> > If it does is this a good thing or a bad thing?
> > 
> 
> It strongly imposes a particular "GUI-centric" philosophy to the architecture  
> of the application.  While I believe that taking a "user-centric" approach to  
> software design is good, making the application revolve around the GUI  
> architecturally is bad, in my opinion.
> 


Hmm, I guess I'd have to disagree.  In 3.0, you can finally make palettes
of subclasses of things other than Views, which should allow me to write
almost complete applications completely inside interface builder, just by
dragging my objects off a palette, dropping them into the files window,
connecting them up to each other and frobbing their insides with their 
custom inspectors (loaded, along with the object, as part of a palette).

Certainly, the way IB is usually used is just for building the GUI portion,
but with 3.0, there is finally the opportunity to get beyond that.


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