Fwd: Xcode has many windows but I have only one screen.
Fwd: Xcode has many windows but I have only one screen.
- Subject: Fwd: Xcode has many windows but I have only one screen.
- From: Denis Stanton <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 16:02:10 +1300
I'm finding the new Xcode interface to be much more trouble to use than
Project Builder and I'm wondering if I have maybe missed some
customization opportunity.
With Project Builder I chose to show only one Window. If my
compilation produced some error messages (hey, it happens to all of us
sometime :-) ) They would appear in the top panel and clicking on a
message would show the corresponding source in the lower panel. I
could view messages and source at the same time.
Xcose doesn't seem to provide this. Although I seem to have a similar
panel arrangement the error messages appear in a separate window. This
would be fine if I had a wide monitor, but I'm using an old 1705,
supposedly 17", but it is only legible at 1023 x 768. With this
resolution I need to make the main IDE window pretty much full screen.
The error message window appears in front of this, until I start
tinkering with the source code, at which point the error message window
disappears behind. Surely it makes more sense to have these message
remain visible in a panel, as they were in Project Builder? Did I miss
an optional setting for this?
A similar problem occurs when I run the program in fast turnaround
mode. I'm accustomed to tracking down logic problems by putting
System.out.println messages in the code ( I forgot to say I'm working
with WebObjects Java here) Then I would follow along with the output
log, matching it against the source code. Fine in Project Builder, but
again Xcode puts the system output into a separate window so with
limited screen space I can look at the source code OR the output, but
not both.
The top panel in the main Xcode window doesn't seem to have a purpose.
It tells me the name of the current file, but since the same name is
selected in the Groups and File list at the left of the window, and is
also repeated on the bar between the panels, at the top of the source
listing, I don't see much value in this.
Denis Stanton
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