Re: troubling article
Re: troubling article
- Subject: Re: troubling article
- From: "M. Uli Kusterer" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 09:02:03 +0200
At 23:43 Uhr -0400 10.06.2003, Andy Satori wrote:
In any of the languages, with the exception of VB (which doesn't
have that call directly implemented), typing 'GetUser(' would prompt
me with a tool tip containing the parameters and types from the
Windows.h definitions. In the Cocoa world you have to dig through
poorly indexed, HTML or PDF materials.
Actually, I just double-click the function name and hold down the
command or option keys, and voila, I get either the header for it, or
the HTML help reference entry. I admit, it's a little hidden, but
it's there, and it's documented.
Sure, I would love if it was done on mouse-over like in Eclipse, but hey ...
That doesn't mean that I don't long for Code Completion, and
ToolTips with function parameters in them.
True. Apple could probably rip off lots of features from Eclipse and
make a number of us folks happy.
I don't find hunting HTML documentation in a Safari Tabbed set for
that stuff fun, when I'm spoiled to having so very handy.
Try the option/command + double-click thing. It saves you a lot of
time, though apparently it fails to work in Objective C++ projects.
But I have to admit I don't trust the source of that article enough
to really believe he gave MacOS a decent try.
First, my own experience was radically different: I myself learned
Cocoa in one day. The only thing that ever was a real show-stopper
for me was that Cocoa doesn't allow hiding NSViews like you can
orderOut a window.
Second, the page continues about halfway into the article (or at
least what I'd expect to be halfway through the article if it wasn't
that short) with an all-caps headline (don't they have a designer
that got a fit about that?) and an entirely unrelated article. It
looks like he's trying to fill space or something, but it definitely
doesn't look the way I'd expect a professional and trustworthy
newspaper's pages to look.
Third, he doesn't say *what* he actually tried to code, where he hit
a wall, ... anything. There is no way for others to validate his
claims of the Mac's inappropriateness, to reproduce what he did and
where he had problems, or to find out whether his claims still ring
true when 10.3 comes out...
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Cheers,
M. Uli Kusterer
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