Re: Anyone recommend Dash?
Re: Anyone recommend Dash?
- Subject: Re: Anyone recommend Dash?
- From: Jack Brindle <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 09:18:00 -0700
Way back when (Xcode 3) the doc interface was pretty good. Now its really awful. The web interface is far better. But Dash is even better than that. Dash 2 (and now Dash 3) gives you searchable interface for not just Xcode docs but others as well. Dash 3 extends this, adding archives, and as far as I am concerned, it a much better experience. Dash is definitely recommended.
Note though that Dash does suffer from the same issue that the Xcode docs suffers from, since it uses those docs. If there is an error in the docket, then it will show up both places. The best example is the -hash method in NSObject. For some unknown reason it was marked as deprecated in the 10.10 docs. It is correct on-line, and in the 10.11 docs, but…
Weird..
Also, take a good look at the Dash content. I believe the Mac version does contain both sample code and tech notes, and contains support for snippets. The iOS version does not contain snippet storage as I recall. With Dash 3, though, there is a cool new feature - mate your iPad to your Mac and it becomes the display for your docs, giving you back precious screen real estate. Works quite nicely.
Definitely worth the $20 (plus additional $10 for the Dash-3 upgrade) I paid.
- Jack
> On Jul 9, 2015, at 12:02 AM, Roland King <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> On 9 Jul 2015, at 14:52, Graham Cox <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> Is anyone using Dash for API documentation? Can you recommend it?
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>> I received a bundle offer including this today and it seems like a good deal, but wonder if it’s worth using over and above XCode’s standard docs?
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>> —Graham
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> Love it - don’t use anything else. It’s a hotkey away - you can pick docsets so I have an OSX set and an iOS set (both of which include XCode’s docs too). There’s a snippet editor I’ve not really used as much as I ought to, you also get updated downloads of lots of other useful manuals like perl and shell etc. It was upgraded recently to Swift-compatible BUT you can turn it off and just see the ObjC stuff if you like.
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> Downside I guess you don’t get searchable tech notes and example code, just the API docs. That’s about the only time I go back to Xcode’s doc viewer.
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> I did get an update the other day which just told me a new version is on the way, or just released perhaps. I think I have Dash 2, this is Dash 3 and is an extra 10 bucks which I will probably end up paying eventually. How that works thru the appstore I’m not entirely sure - I didn’t think you could do paid upgrades through the appstore.
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> Anyway you can try it out for free IIRC - give it a few days and see if you like it. x
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