Re: Searching the headers in Xcode (Re: [ANN] Xcode + Leopard at WWDC this year)
Re: Searching the headers in Xcode (Re: [ANN] Xcode + Leopard at WWDC this year)
- Subject: Re: Searching the headers in Xcode (Re: [ANN] Xcode + Leopard at WWDC this year)
- From: Steve Checkoway <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:34:13 -0700
On Jul 20, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Laurence Harris wrote:
On Jul 20, 2006, at 4:56 PM, Steve Checkoway wrote:
If by geek you mean it took 10 seconds of looking at it, then yes.
If looking at it for 10 seconds was all it took I'd have had it set
up long ago. ;-) The fact that such a basic option requires an
auxiliary window and multiple steps including the use of regexp
supports the notion that the design of Xcode has the geek user in
mind. Sure, I expect an application like Xcode to have power
features and offer lots of control, but I also expect a Mac
application to provide simple, intuitive access to commonly used
features.
Keep in mind you're programming here. Some technical ability (such as
the use of multiple windows in an application) is required.
For a long time I couldn't understand why so many people would
ask questions on the carbon-dev list for which I could find
answers in less than 30 seconds by searching the headers in CW.
Now I understand. ;-)
I don't. This couldn't have been easier to set up.
Nonsense. It could have been a checkbox in the main window that
didn't require five or six steps in a separate window.
If you're searching the Carbon headers, all you need to do is have
the framework included and tell it to look in the Frameworks. They
don't contain source so you're going to be search the headers.
In any case, no matter how easy you find it to set up criteria like
this, by requiring the use of the Options window you can't specify
multiple criteria. For example, if you set up a find set for the
system headers and another for your own headers, you can't use them
together to search all headers.
That's true, you cannot. Being able to specify multiple constraints
would be nice but then you'd end up with something like the Rules in
Mail and even there you only get two options (if all apply or if any
apply). I agree with what you said before about needing 2^n sets for
n different options (I'm paraphrasing); however, consider how many of
those you actually use? If you search your headers and the system
headers together often, make a search criteria for it. If you search
them separately often, make those. Chances are (uh oh, another
assumption) you don't need to create new search criteria often. I
just don't see a need to use all 2^n possible combinations of search
criteria.
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Steve Checkoway
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