Re: Cocoa Browser [was Re: NSMutableNumber?]
Re: Cocoa Browser [was Re: NSMutableNumber?]
- Subject: Re: Cocoa Browser [was Re: NSMutableNumber?]
- From: Jeremy Dronfield <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 18:38:13 +0100
On Monday, September 23, 2002, at 02:07 pm, Ondra Cada wrote:
No offence to CocoaBrowser meant of course, it is just that I've
downloaded it for a friend of mine, and found that it DOES NOT HAVE A
FULLTEXT SEARCH?!?
I'd like that feature too. I like CocoaBrowser, but I do agree that it
has its shortcomings.
Well the browser part is nice enough (though cutting out just one
method description is very very bad: showing the complete document and
just scrolling it to the desired desc would be infinitely better, since
the context is important too)
That's the reason I never liked browsing the docs from within PB. I
don't like having to scroll through a (sometimes enormous) list,
especially since in their "God-given" state the items are listed
alphabetically, not thematically. Once you get used to CB's navigation
quirks, it's easy to zip from description to description. On the other
hand, it would be nice to have a preference which allowed grouped
display of descriptions of interdependent or closely related methods
(e.g. all NSData's init methods, or all NSWindow's delegate methods).
Well if a majority of Cocoa developers use the thing, I can understand
why such a number of trivial questions occurs in cocoadev!
I think that's got more to do with deficiencies in the docs themselves
than with using the wrong browser. I'm not surprised you didn't get to
grips with CB when you only gave it five minutes. It takes at least six
or seven minutes to get fully accustomed to it. Anyway, Ondra, I don't
mean to flatter, but do you *ever* need to consult Cocoa docs?
-Jeremy
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