Re: documentation window and "Previous"
Re: documentation window and "Previous"
- Subject: Re: documentation window and "Previous"
- From: Ronald Hayden <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:08:51 -0800
(2) Often, clicking one of these two "Previous" buttons (but not
necessarily
the other, and not consistently one or the other) will rocket me
into Safari
to view the page, even though I have never viewed any pages in
Safari and
Safari wasn't running.
This is a bug we believe we've addressed for a future release.
(3) This is the REALLY bad part. As you know, it is often the case
that
documents are structured with a TOC down the left side. This is
displayed in
a frame at the left of the detail area.
This situation will change with the next doc update, in which we no
longer use a frameset for the TOC.
-- Ron
On Dec 10, 2007, at 10:46 AM, Matt Neuburg wrote:
In Xcode 3 the use of the "Previous" button(s) in the documentation
window
seems to have regressed from previous versions. I say button(s)
because
there are two: the one in the upper left of the window itself (the
toolbar)
and the one at the left end of the header that divides the doc list
(above)
from the displayed content detail (below).
There are three main phenomena:
(1) Often, clicking these two different "Previous" buttons will do two
different things (exactly what each one will do is unpredictable).
(2) Often, clicking one of these two "Previous" buttons (but not
necessarily
the other, and not consistently one or the other) will rocket me
into Safari
to view the page, even though I have never viewed any pages in
Safari and
Safari wasn't running.
(3) This is the REALLY bad part. As you know, it is often the case
that
documents are structured with a TOC down the left side. This is
displayed in
a frame at the left of the detail area. If I click several of the
entries in
the Toc to see page A, then page B, then page C of this multipaged
document,
or if I click hyperlink with page A that takes me to page B and then a
hyperlink that takes me to page C, if I then click a Previous button
I don't
see C, B, or A - instead, I am rocketed out into a completely
different set
of pages, the TOC+detail set that I was reading before I ever saw A.
In
other words, when a frame is in question (and a frame is always in
question), "Previous" does not work like the Back button in a browser.
I raise these matters with reluctance because I am amazed not to have
noticed people screaming about them on this list, since they make
the docs
all but unusable for me and I don't understand why everyone else isn't
saying the same thing. Is it just me?
m.
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