Re: MT vs. Marshmallow
Re: MT vs. Marshmallow
- Subject: Re: MT vs. Marshmallow
- From: Andy Lee <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 23:52:34 -0500
Speaking of such things, Classical Software has announced a beta of a search/index tool called TFM (I assume as in "RTFM" ;)). This was announced on the Omni-dev list ten days ago. I don't know how it escaped my attention until now.
Here's what was posted:
At 6:20 PM -0800 2/26/02, Matt Covey wrote:
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To: email@hidden
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From: Matt Covey <email@hidden>
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Subject: ANN: TFM 1.0b1, dev doc/src search & viewing tool
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Sender: email@hidden
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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:20:32 -0800
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The first public beta of TFM, a tool for searching and viewing developer documentation and source code is now available at:
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<http://www.ClassicalSoftwareInc.com/>.
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Key features include: fast searching
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display of HTML & source code
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understanding ObjC inheritance
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Screen shots are here: http://www.ClassicalSoftwareInc.com/TFM-index.html
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What does it do? Drop a folder (like "/System/Library/Frameworks" or "/Developer/Examples") on a new document and it provides:
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Full-text index of files, including parsing HTML & C/ObjC to extract
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inheritance, naming and sectional information.
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Searching with simple "Find Next" and larger "Find All".
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Supports ^, $, |, &, () meta-characters.
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Recognizes and groups related files together (NSColorWell.h goes with
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NSColorWell.html, Release Notes are at the top of "AppKit", etc).
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Provides inheritance hierarchy view in one place (e.g. NSColorWell
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inherits from NSControl, etc.). This lists all methods in a class
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and it's superclasses. (Type "draw" in the filter, for example,
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for: "What drawing methods can I send to an NSColorWell object?")
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Automatically builds a popup menu of page sections providing a quick
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overview and the ability to easily jump around.
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Shows pages with their "display name"
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so you see: Model Objects Represent Data and Basic Behaviors
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not: AppDesign.2.html
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Regards,
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++matt
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Matt Covey Classical Software email@hidden
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--Andy
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