Re: Popup vs pull down menu item missing
Re: Popup vs pull down menu item missing
- Subject: Re: Popup vs pull down menu item missing
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:24:08 -0700
- Thread-topic: Popup vs pull down menu item missing
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:18:29 +1000, Ian Joyner <email@hidden>
said:
>Thanks, but they are conceptual docs, not reference docs. What I'm
>suggesting is that the reference docs, such as:
>
>http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/
>ApplicationKit/ObjC_classic/index.html
>
>should contain every bit of information, even in a boring terse form
>(which it is anyway), from which the conceptual docs take that info
>and put it in a more palatable form and so you get the overall
>picture (although what's in the first 'conceptual' document seems
>more normative than informative (eg., spelling out intricate spacing
>details, which won't be of interest to a new comer). Perhaps better
>cross referencing of material. Maybe, what I'm saying is much
>information is hard to find (someone's going to disagree with that).
>I think Apple keep coming up with new arrangements every major OS
>release to alleviate that. Anyway, sorry, it's easy to seem critical,
>but I'm trying to make some constructive suggestions, even though
>they may not be very deep.
I think a lot depends on what you mean by "contain". Let's start with the
document you listed above. It doesn't "contain" any expository text at all;
it's just a list of classes. But they are hyperlinks. So clearly you must
think that "contain" can mean "contain as a hyperlink".
Very well, let's click a hyperlink for the class you might be using
(NSPopUpButton). At the very top of the page that appears, in a box just
below the title, it says:
"Companion guide: Application Menu and Pop-up List Programming Topics for
Cocoa"
That means, loosely translated: "I (the present page) contain the info on
methods for how the NSPopUpButton class *works*, qua class. If you want to
know what an NSPopUpButton *is*, click this link (which I 'contain')."
And when you do click it, there you are in a little multi-chapter "booklet",
one of whose chapters is about "Pop-Up Buttons and Pull-Down Lists" and the
differences between them.
I think that's a pretty darned good arrangement! m.
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