ANN: TFM 1.0 for Mac OS X
ANN: TFM 1.0 for Mac OS X
- Subject: ANN: TFM 1.0 for Mac OS X
- From: Matt Covey <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 15:21:57 -0700
Version 1.0 of TFM, a tool for searching and viewing documentation and source code is now available at:
<
http://www.ClassicalSoftwareInc.com/>
With TFM you can search, study or simply browse: Mac OS X developer documentation, framework headers, source code examples, system header files and your own source and documentation.
Changes since b3: Sped up part of relevancy searching ("Comparing...")
Interface tweaks
Small bug fixes
----------- What is TFM ? -------------
Key features include: fast searching
display of HTML & source code
understanding ObjC inheritance
Screen shots are here:
http://www.ClassicalSoftwareInc.com/TFM-index.html
WHAT DOES IT DO?
After creating a new document you drop a folder (like "/System/Library/Frameworks", "/Developer/Examples" or one of your own) on it and then TFM:
Provides a full-text index of files, (having parsed the HTML & C/ObjC to
extract inheritance, naming and sectional information)
Provides a simple "Find Next" and larger "Find All" for searching.
Supports ^, $, |, &, () meta-characters and relevancy ranking of results.
Groups related files together
NSColorWell.h goes with NSColorWell.html, etc.
When viewing the "NSString.html" page the NSMutableString,
NSAttributedString, etc, pages are just one click away.
Provides a quick overview of a page so you can quickly scan all the methods
in a class and easily jump to any of them.
Shows an inheritance hierarchy view:
NSColorWell -> NSControl -> NSResponder -> NSObject
Lists all methods so it's easy, for example, to find out what drawing
messages you can send to an NSColorWell object: just type "draw" in the
filter field.
Shows meaningful page names
like: Model Objects Represent Data and Basic Behaviors
not: AppDesign.2.html
Regards,
++matt
Matt Covey Classical Software email@hidden
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