Re: Xcode's command-option-double-click is a bad guesser
Re: Xcode's command-option-double-click is a bad guesser
- Subject: Re: Xcode's command-option-double-click is a bad guesser
- From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:07:49 -0500
- Organization: Rogue Research Inc.
On 11/11/09 2:46 PM, Ken Thomases said:
>On Nov 11, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Matt Neuburg wrote:
>
>> When I command-option-double-click the term UITableView in my code,
>> the
>> developer help displays the documentation for
>> NSIndexPath(UITableView). This
>> is a bad guess. If there is a more obvious guess, as there is in
>> this case -
>> namely, the class reference for UITableView - that is what should be
>> initially displayed.
>
>I don't think it's guessing. I think you have "Contains" as the
>search criterion (rather than Starts With/Prefix or Exact). Then, the
>list of results is merely sorted and the first in the list is what
>gets selected initially. It just so happens that, among API entries
>that contain UITableView, NSIndexPath(UITableView) comes lexically
>first.
>
>You'll perhaps be happier with Starts With/Prefix. That will probably
>give you the behavior you're looking for.
You may very well be explaining the behaviour seen, but I'd still argue
it's a UI bug. Why should the behaviour of cmd-option-dbl-click behave
differently based on the mode of a window that's probably not even visible?
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Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
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