Re: Xcode - An Apple Embarrassment
Re: Xcode - An Apple Embarrassment
- Subject: Re: Xcode - An Apple Embarrassment
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:28:31 -0800
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> On 28 feb 2012, at 22:26, Lee Ann Rucker wrote:
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> > Plus there's no [...] jump to documentation.
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> Is too!
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> Option+DoubleClick
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*No*. I've said it before (right here) and I'll say it again; this is *not* jumping to the documentation, and it is *not* doing what Xcode 3 did. It switches to the documentation window and it enters the double-clicked word into the search field, and it does the search, but it ****doesn't display the actual documentation**** on the double-clicked word.
Compare simple Option-click. It brings up the hated Quick Help pop-up, but at least if you then click on the tiny "book" icon you are shown *the actual documentation* on the clicked term. What is wanted is a simple *direct* way to do *that* (without the intermediate clicking on the tiny book icon). That is what Xcode 3 used to do.
Also, reverting to Option-double-click: if this search word is a method name with multiple parameters, it enters the term incorrectly so it's useless. For example:
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
Option-double-click on "application:" and it wrongly enters "application" in the search field, when it should be "application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:". Pretty lame, eh?
<wildAndCrazy>
Once again I put forward my pet wild-and-crazy "dog food" theory that the people at Apple do not actually *use* Xcode for serious work. I know it sounds wild and crazy, but I have two kinds of evidence for this theory:
(1) Apple employees are right there on the spot, in the same building as the people who write Xcode, so if they really needed to get work done with Xcode they'd insist on having those problems solved.
(2) Watch the WWDC 2012 videos *carefully* and look at how the presenters interact with Xcode 4. They encounter bugs all the time and either skip past them or are stymied by them. This makes me think they are not familiar with or dependent on Xcode in their real lives.
:)
</wildAndCrazy>
m.
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