Re: Setting up searches in Xcode (Re: [ANN] Xcode + Leopard at WWDC this year)
Re: Setting up searches in Xcode (Re: [ANN] Xcode + Leopard at WWDC this year)
- Subject: Re: Setting up searches in Xcode (Re: [ANN] Xcode + Leopard at WWDC this year)
- From: Laurence Harris <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:17:55 -0400
On Jul 19, 2006, at 12:32 AM, Chris Espinosa wrote:
On Jul 18, 2006, at 9:08 PM, Laurence Harris wrote:
How do you tell it to only search header files?
Hit command-option-F (Find In Project...), click "Options..." button
and define your file search criteria if the built in list of
criteria
are not good enough for you.
- I think it's ridiculous to have to open a second window to do
something as simple as search the headers.
- You didn't answer my question. I already know how to open the
Options window, but I don't see any convenient way to limit a
search to my headers or the system headers.
You create a Search Set once in the Options window for places that
you look frequently, then you can use that search set in any
Project Find window in any project just by picking it from the popup.
The responses I'm getting seem to be making my point. So far I've
gotten three replies to my question and each time someone points me
to the Options window*, but no one has told me how to configure a
search of the headers. I'm sure it can be done, but IMO, it would be
obvious how to do so if Xcode's Find system were designed better, and
it says something that no one has actually explained how to do it.
Furthermore, it would be a lot more convenient in some cases to just
turn off a checkbox than to have create a find set for each variation
you might use regularly. To replace two checkboxes you need four find
sets. To replace two and a set of three radio buttons you need 12. I
think find sets are a great idea, but they shouldn't be used to
justify the lack of convenient access to options.
*Xcode's Find would be way better if they put results in their own
windows and put the options in the main Find window. I can't think of
any other application that uses a separate options window the way
Xcode does. Frankly, this is an example of why I have never enjoyed
using Apple's developer tools. They work and you can get the job done
with them, but they are often seem as if they were designed by people
who follow a design philosophy that is not the Mac way of doing
things. I am a Mac user who writes Mac software. I am not a geek who
shuns the Mac way of doing things.
Larry
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