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Re: Some simple questions I couldn't find answers to in the documentation
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Re: Some simple questions I couldn't find answers to in the documentation


  • Subject: Re: Some simple questions I couldn't find answers to in the documentation
  • From: Quincey Morris <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:29:06 -0700

On Aug 18, 2009, at 21:56, Gideon King wrote:

Hmmm, I don't see that at all. When I hover over a variable, it shows the yellowish tooltip thing with the expand button. But hovering over the blue i does nothing.

Sorry, I didn't explain myself very well. The blue "i" does nothing but signal that you get the tooltip thing if you hover over the symbol with the red dashed outline around it. :)


I don't see this either - as soon as I move from the method call part of the statement towards the left, it just disappears.

So for instance if I had:

[myVar isEqualToString:@"Fred"]

Then when I mouse over myVar, I get the tooltip variable inspector. When I mouse over the isEqualToString: I get the grayish blue down arrow icon at the left of the whole statement, but it disappears as soon as I move the mouse over myVar. And when I select any or all of the text, I get the blue icon to the left while my mouse is over the highlighted portion.

Hmm, I'm not sure what you're seeing. There's a "code folding" ribbon running vertically down the left of the text, which sometimes shows a downward pointing disclosure triangle. That may be what you're seeing. Or it's something purely cosmetic, like the blue "i". The grayish blue down arrow I was talking about appears to the right of a symbol, but not while you're debugging. Are you seeing this in an editor window, or some other window?


Frankly, although some of this new context sensitive widget stuff is useful, IMO the user interface is *not* Xcode's shining hour.


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