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NSScrollView and general IB annoyance

Okay, "Learning Cocoa" isn't the greatest book in the world, and now some of its incompleteness and seemingly fractured organization is coming back to haunt me, but I'd still be royally screwed if the book didn't exist. That said...

So I'm working on ToDo.app and the text nonchalantly mentions that I should make a panel with various controls and "a scroll view". So I naturally assume, "Hey, I'll drag a scroll view from the IB palette!".

And, as I'm sure you all know, such a thing doesn't exist in the IB palette. Of course, it took me about 10 minutes to figure this out because I had to drag, drop, Info | Attributes on each non-obvious icon to see what it was.

So, some requests to the powers that be:

- please add an NSScrollView to the Views palette. Currently you can make an NSBox or custom view through the Views palette OR the Layout | Group In options. NSScrollView only does the latter, and let me tell you, that took a LONG time. I found this issue several times in the archives.

- please add help balloons/tool tips to, well, everything, but at the very least to the palette items so that you don't have to drag, drop and inspect just to see what it is.

- while I'm pleading, a better help system that at least tells you what the various control attributes map to would be nice. Nothing like staring at a panel option and not understanding what it does.

- while I'm complaining, has anyone else noticed that the help system seems kind of messed up in 10.1? The integrated help is kind of nice, but as far as I can tell we don't have a searchable help system anymore (!).

Brian

References: 
 >Re: Project builder 1.0.1 doesn't work with OSX 10.1 upgrade (From: Henri Lamiraux <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Project builder 1.0.1 doesn't work with OSX 10.1 upgrade (From: Chris Gehlker <email@hidden>)



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