Re: Cocoa Documentation on NSFormatter
Re: Cocoa Documentation on NSFormatter
- Subject: Re: Cocoa Documentation on NSFormatter
- From: Thomas Lachand-Robert <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 14:34:40 +0100
Le dimanche 16 dicembre 2001, ` 01:43 , Ondra Cada a icrit :
Well, the documentation was designed and created _to be searched by a very
flexible and luxurious fulltext finder_ (the alas late Digital Librarian:
it
completely escapes me why Apple decided to trash the thing!). I personally
strongly believe that this is much better than a heap of transversal links
and info, but of course, that might be in the eye of the beholder.
Should you have DL and use it to find NSFormatter, you would get a list of
documents which mention it; because NSCell is among them, and because you
know "passively" that you are about to use the formatter in a cell, you
would
check it, and learn what was needed.
Since I, thanks to my nice black NeXTstation, still am happily user of DL,
I
don't have any documentation problem (but with those new things which are
<<<forthcoming>>> or not even that). For those who are not so lucky as to
have a NeXT (or OpenStep on any architecture it supported), I can just
recommend MTLibrarian or MarshmallowLibrarian (both are available from
Stepwise): whilst still not in the league of Digital Librarian, they are
infinitely better than anything Apple offered us so far.
I did get both, but I don't find them very practical, so I use them
sparsely. I have heard many people here saying wonderful things about DL.
Since I never got a Next box, I can't understand what makes it so special.
Anyway, isn't it possible to get the source somewhere or to revive the
thing one way or another? (Sorry for the naive question.) Maybe the
missing features could be added to MTLibrarian or MarshmallowLibrarian?
Thomas Lachand-Robert
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