NSScrollView and general IB annoyance
NSScrollView and general IB annoyance
- Subject: NSScrollView and general IB annoyance
- From: Brian Hook <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 10:29:39 -0700
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