Re: NSScrollView and general IB annoyance
Re: NSScrollView and general IB annoyance
- Subject: Re: NSScrollView and general IB annoyance
- From: Brian Hook <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 11:45:54 -0700
At 10:57 AM 9/30/01 -0700, Vince DeMarco wrote:
Okay what would a good tool tip be on the info panel settings.
Lets take the window attributes info panel??
I can add this in but i'm not sure what to put in as a tool tip for the
settings.
First, let me say that I'm very happy you've asked =)
There are really two separate issues. The first is just putting tool tips
over the Cocoa Views palette in IB, e.g. a help balloon that says
"NSOpenGLView" or "NSTextView".
The second issue is that when someone is messing with the attributes, it
would be nice if they could understand intuitively what the various
attributes mean. Most are self-explanatory, and I'm sure ALL are
self-explanatory if you're a Cocoa/NextStep veteran, but for those trying
to transition to Cocoa it can be very daunting trying to cross index each
view's methods with the appropriate check box or pull-down in the Info
attributes window. To jump back and forth between IB and Explorer (and I
still can't find the search functionality that existed in PB/10.0) to
figure out what "Retained backing" or "one-shot" means can really mess up
your workflow. Having help balloons or context sensitive help would be a
huge help here for us neophytes.
What would be GREAT is if there was a button you could click that would
just automatically take you to the view's description in the help
system. At least this way you could easily try to sort out what each
attribute is by reading the view's description. This would be a huge leap
forward. Seriously, take a look at Microsoft Visual Studio's integrated
help system. That's how things should be. Highlight a word, hit F1, and
bam, it brings up the function/class description with links to related
procedures and a piece of sample code on how to use it.
And please, please put an NSScrollView in the Views palette.
Brian