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Re: NSObject hierarchy browser. Is there such a thing?
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  • Subject: Re: NSObject hierarchy browser. Is there such a thing?
  • From: "email@hidden" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:04:45 +0100

On 2 Apr 2012, at 21:56, Alex Zavatone wrote:

> I come from the ancient, forgotten world of Director, where I was fortunate enough to write an object method and object hierarchy browser that showed the variable type :  variable value or the methods in the object hierarchy.
>
> This made programming painfully easy for me since I had a readout that brought all the watched objects into scope and displayed their variable structure and another one that displayed all the inherited methods.
>
> With all the information to access about all the NS and iOS frameworks, I am wondering if there is something like this for the main classes in the iOS UIKit and Foundation frameworks?
>
> The "dwell over a variable" tooltip has its purpose, but leaves much to be desired.
>
> Even hierarchical printouts of the method and variable structure would rock in illustrating all the vars/methods I have to look up every day.
>
> Everything's just not exactly second nature to me yet and these training wheels will certainly help me get less skinned knees and save a boatload of time.
I am not sure about iOS coverage but I have used the following for OS X:

http://homepage.mac.com/aglee/downloads/appkido.html
www.fscript.org
http://inexdo.com/CocoaNav

Regards

Jonathan Mitchell
Mugginsoft LLP
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