Re: Project Find
Re: Project Find
- Subject: Re: Project Find
- From: Laurence Harris <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:45:45 -0400
On Oct 24, 2006, at 1:41 AM, Chris Espinosa wrote:
On Oct 23, 2006, at 10:16 PM, Laurence Harris wrote:
AM, Chris Espinosa wrote:
On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:54 PM, Laurence Harris wrote:
In Xcode, when you do a Project Find, is there any way to make
Xcode keep around multiple Find windows? In Codewarrior each
find has a separate window, which is very useful. But at least
the way my Xcode is set up, when I do a Project Find, I lose
the one I had before. Any way to change that?
Sadly, no. Apparently whoever designed that thought you'd never
want easy access to two sets of search results at the same time.
You can use the option to Display Results in Smart Find Group to
keep the results of multiple searches around, but it's not
nearly as convenient as what you could do in CW.
Results of past searches are also (to my surprise) available from
the Find combo box in the Project Find window. If you pick a
previous find, you get its previous find results in the window
instantly.
You could file an enhancement request, but it would be another
dup of a well-voted-on enhancement request that we're considering
for a future release.
Well, how many votes is it going to take to get it done? ;-) This
doesn't sound like a tough thing to change. Surely it must be a
lot easier than some other requested enhancements, and the current
system is a real productivity killer for me sometimes.
It used to be as-many-as-you-want in ProjectBuilder, but in Xcode
1.0 it got tangled in the Default/Condensed/All-in-One Layout
issues, and the architectural issues of extracting it are not
something that can be done casually in a dot release.
I appreciate your honesty and the information, but this is very
discouraging. Not only does it suggest that this very useful feature
will continue to not be available for the foreseeable future, but it
indicates that there are (or at least have been in the past) serious
flaws in the design process for this tool. It truly mystifies me that
the Xcode team would expend time and energy *removing* a feature that
most people use and want. (Something tells me the iTunes team doesn't
work that way. ;-) Furthermore, Xcode didn't just come out. It's
been out for a while, lots of people want this feature, and it's
still only "being considered" for a future release?
and the architectural issues of extracting it are not something
that can be done casually in a dot release.
I wouldn't expect it in a dot release, but your comment suggests it
isn't even going to be done in the next major release. In fact, your
comment indicates it's not even on the "to do" list yet.
Larry
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