Re: 'MSDN' equivalent of Xcode?
Re: 'MSDN' equivalent of Xcode?
- Subject: Re: 'MSDN' equivalent of Xcode?
- From: Shawn Erickson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:56:22 -0800
On 1/5/06, David Dunham <email@hidden> wrote:
> Leo
>
> >For e.g. Xcode is equivalent to MSVC++, but then is there any equivalent
> >help application just like MSDN in Mac? If yes, then where can I find it?
>
> Sadly, there isn't one. (I do occasional Windows stuff, and MSDN
> search always finds the API first, unlike searching
> developer.apple.com.)
It is important to understand that you can search API by symbol name
in a few different ways while in Xcode. For example...
- In the documentation window you can select API search for the search
field in the upper right corner.
- In a source file you can option double click (hold down the option
key while double clicking) a symbol name. Also you can command double
click a symbol to locate the definition of the symbol (opening header
file, etc.).
I personally utilize google to search Apple's online documentation,
for example "CGAffineTransformConcat site:developer.apple.com".
Also Apple's documentation is organized in a consistent way and once
you understand its general layout you can become rather quick in
finding exactly what you are looking for without have to search. I
usually keep bookmarks around to various API reference listings for
things like AppKit and Foundation (Cocoa).
For example (also locally available once you install Xcode)...
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/ObjC_classic/index.html>
Finally a few third party api documentation search tools exist (don't
personally find the need for them).
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