Apple

On Jun 13, 2014, at 4:39 PM, has <email@hidden> wrote:

There are three View buttons in the dictionary window's toolbar:

* view terminology suites
* view containment hierarchy [1]
* view inheritance hierarchy

The one you want is the middle button. Caveats: it's not very good (it only shows one-to-many relationships, i.e. elements, not one-to-one, i.e. properties that contain application objects/references), and both it and the inheritance hierarchy views are rather buggy so don't always show everything/anything. If you wish to file bug reports, see <https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/>.

This was-- embarrassingly-- news to me. I tried it immediately and had a look at the Finder's dictionary. I opened the dictionary and clicked the middle button and was immediately confused.

Confusion Number 1: At the far left there are TWO items that say "[c] Application." One has a triangle pointing to the right and the other doesn't. Clicking these two "[c] Application" things shows entirely different stuff. I would have expected only one "[c] Application."

Confusion Number 2: When I click the "[c] Application" with the triangle, I see a whole bunch of other things. Some of them have triangles indicating that they contain other things. That looks handy. But, if I click on "Folder>" it shows me ANOTHER list of things… with another "Folder>"… and if I click THAT… (repeat forever).

I wonder how deeply I could have burrowed. I gave up after ten levels.

Am I misunderstanding this? It looks like a big mess that somehow got through QA. Maybe it's just "a Finder thing." Wouldn't be the first, would it.

I'm using 10.8.5 by the way.

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	>SE dictionary views [was: Informal poll] (From: has <email@hidden>)