Re: How do you found your way around in the ref docs?
Re: How do you found your way around in the ref docs?
- Subject: Re: How do you found your way around in the ref docs?
- From: "Frank Bettger" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:53:02 +0200
Thanks Karsten
Your advice was very helpful :). I did as you suggested
1. Cmd+double-clicked NSTextField
2. Cmd+F "string", Ignore Case, Wrap Around. Found three irrelevant matches.
3. Scrolled up to #import <AppKit/NSControl.h> and double-clicked NSControl
4. Cmd+F "string" again. Found the promissing match - (NSString
*)stringValue;
5. Went to Help->Documentation. Entered stringValue and performed API
search. Found 7 matches.
6. Chose the NSControl match and found
stringValue
Returns the value of the receiver's cell as an NSString object.
- (NSString *)stringValue
Became curious of what a "cell" is? I thought that a cell is something like
a text field or a button, but could it be anything else? Tried to look it up
but after a long wandering about refdocs found nothing. Now the concept of
"cell" must mean something specific and I thought that it would be decent of
apple to define new concepts they introduce. But where do you find such
definitions???
Thanks Frank
On 8/26/07, Karsten <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> hi Frank,
>
> the way i usually work through the classes is by typing (into an
> Xcode editor) the name of the class (in your case NSTextField) then i
> cmd-doubleclick the name and it opens the class' header file. then i
> cmd-f to search for something that might sound usefull, like "string"
> in your case...this will find return values as well as parts of the
> selector (keep in mind that cmd-g will speed up the search). If i
> don't find anything i just cmd-doubleclick the superclass that is
> written in the class-declaration and repeat there.... if i don't find
> anything i try the Xcode documentation (option-click some class or
> selector) and search using full-text search. the last alternative is
> the net ;-)
>
> Kind Regards
> Karsten
>
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