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: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:11:13 -0400
On Jul 20, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Shawn Erickson wrote:
In any open dialog box hit command-shift-g and you can go to an
arbitrary path including ones normally hidden in the standard open
dialog.
Ah, I didn't realize that. There's no indication in the interface and
I've never used that. I'm just not a path kind of guy. I was
initially drawn to the Mac because it didn't require command line
interfaces, cryptic commands, and typing out paths. I didn't like
those things almost 20 years ago and I don't like them any more now
than I did then. In any case, this supports my underlying point, that
doing this simple thing in Xcode requires me to do something I
consider to not be Mac-like and use a feature that's not obvious. A
better interface if typing paths may be required would be to provide
a text box for the path with a Browse button to open an open file
dialog if you wanted to use one of those instead. As long as typing
paths is only an optional alternative it's fine if it's not obvious.
Larry
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