Collections Suggestions
Collections Suggestions
- Subject: Collections Suggestions
- From: Brian Barnes <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 18:23:51 -0500
I suspect the collections interfaces is something loved by the xcode
developers, so this might be screaming at a brick wall ... but I offer
my humble opinions and suggestions anyway.
The "collections", for instance in target/build, are really difficult
to use. For one thing, whatever logic is put into what item makes it
into the "current settings", for a new or imported target, is beyond
me. I would suspect it would be anything with a setting, but, for
instance, "generate debugging symbols" is NOT in the default list when
creating a new target, and is set to ON. It takes a bit of hunting to
find this.
Also, I'm making a lot of new targets, and I'm comparing known working
projects with the new ones to get the settings right (these known ones
were imported from PB). Well, it becomes a hunt and peck game where I
have to work through all the settings to find the one (and get them to
the "current" collection) that I need to create the correct target.
This is way to hard.
It also makes it that anytime I need to set something specific, it's
another hunt mission till I find it. Adding a "All" group isn't going
to do anything but make it even harder to find.
Also, the lists don't sort! This also makes it a bit difficult to use.
My suggestion would be to take all the settings groups and turn them
into separate lists divided by tabs. That way, comparing projects is
easy as the lists are divided and never change. Also, finding a
certain item would be easier as you can drill for it. Or, better yet,
just use a tree.
I hate to complain this much, but as neat as the collection interface
looks and sounds on paper, when you get to using it (as I noted above)
it becomes tedious. Also, make the text entry lines wrap!
[>] Brian
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