Re: OT: OS X documentation
Re: OT: OS X documentation
- Subject: Re: OT: OS X documentation
- From: James Chandler Jr <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 10:48:50 -0500
I now include AUPublic sources directly to my docs so I can trace very
fast what's going on. Like when I try to find out how something is
done by Apple, i.e. Parameter to Control binding, where information
from several header/source files is needed, it is just clicks away. It
also offers nice inheritance diagrams.
I'm still an extreme "beginner" in the process of carbonizing a large
Classic Mac MIDI app for a month now. Still woefully ignorant of OSX.
Attempting to browse Apple Carbon documentation using Apple's built-in
Help viewer (10.2.4), it is very frustrating compared to, ferinstance,
Windows help browsing the Win SDK or Borland Help files.
Often a search in the Apple Help Viewer will find numerous links, but
double-clicking a link will either not retrieve the link, or it will
stall and wait a looong time before displaying the document.
Even more frustrating-- when I've read a reference deep inside one of
the Carbon help files, and hit the BACK button, it won't return to the
previous higher-level window. Have to enter the Carbon main help page
and wade the tree forward again thru many pages to get back to the
desired chapter heading (accompanied by occasional stalls and long
waits).
Luckily with broadband, searching the Apple Web documentation is much
faster than fussing with the help viewer. But this is crazy, because
why would you have all these great detailed help files installed on the
local hard drive (theoretically much faster access), if there is no
convenient way to browse them?
Codewarrior (for my purposes) does fantastic in global searching my
source code and Apple include files. Does this ClassicalSoftware app
function as an Apple Help Viewer replacement that actually works? (GRIN)
James Chandler Jr.
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