Re: Documentation
Re: Documentation
- Subject: Re: Documentation
- From: Allison Newman <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 19:50:57 +0200
Yup, I should have made that clearer in the initial post.
Basically what I was trying to get at is what happens when keyword
searches fail to turn up the info that you need. I generally try
searching in much the same way as you (API search, list archives,
Google - though I use non-site limited search there), except I don't
use AppKiDo (sorry!) I also try flipping through the index of the
Hillegass book to see if there's maybe a chapter in there talking
about what I want, that I may have forgotten about.
In this particular case for example, my searches failed, because I was
searching on "screensaver" rather than "sleep". This happens quite
often when you are coming from a non-OSX environment, such as Windows,
Linux, Java, whatever - different platforms use different terminology
for the same thing - you say 'bonjour' and I say 'zeroconf' type of
thing. Or, as was my case this time, I was searching for
"screensaver" because it was my screensaver that was getting in the
way on my own computer, not the sleep function. I got fixated on the
wrong word. I learned an awful lot about ScreenSaverView,
ScreenSaverDefaults, and how to write my own screensaver, but
absolutely nothing about how to turn off the system screensaver.
So, to reword my question, does anyone have a trick/useful reference
document that helps them out when keyword searches aren't getting them
the result they want?
Le 4 août 08 à 17:51, Andy Lee a écrit :
First rule of problem reporting: tell us what you tried. Since you
didn't, here's my approach to searching in general for topics where
I'm not sure where to start:
* full-text search in the Xcode documentation window
* search of the list archives via cocoabuilder.com
* Google search targeted at developer.apple.com, e.g., "prevent
sleep site:developer.apple.com"
* AppKiDo (my app), which is actually my first choice if I think I
can guess a substring that will be in a relevant API, but sometimes
I can't. You can also do substring API search in Xcode.
--Andy
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