Re: Using 3.1's documentation window
Re: Using 3.1's documentation window
On 21 Sep 2009, at 20:52, Thomas Davie wrote:
On 21 Sep 2009, at 21:18, Brent Shank wrote:
Hi Tom,
On Sep 21, 2009, at 12:02 PM, Thomas Davie wrote:
I've been working with Xcode 3.2 for a couple of weeks now, and
overall am very very impressed with it, but it's documentation
window is a major step back.
Search results appear very very slowly,
This is unexpected. Does this reproduce for you consistently?
It does, it takes ~1-2 seconds for results to appear at all, but
more importantly 5-6 seconds for results from matching the name of
the API to appear. This is especially annoying as I seldom care
about anything other than the API matches. Previously, searching
for cocoa classes yielded near instant results.
often in the wrong order.
Please elaborate. You can sort the API search results using the
contextual menu. By default, they're sorted in alphabetical order.
A good example is searching for NSArray, gives back
expandTabRunsArray as it's first result.
Thomas
I don't see this behaviour. Searching for NSArray yields NSArray as
the top hit.
As for expandTabRunsArray, I cannot find it at all.
In general I find the help better, quicker and a lot less prone to
expiring.
Sounds like your help installation needs help.
Did you uninstall 3.1 before upgrading?
The search results area gives less details about what it's found,
and it's highly unpredictable if you try to start reading
something before a search has finished.
What details do you miss? The new doc window in Xcode 3.2 reflects
user feedback we've received over the years that the content area
in the doc window was too small. Providing more space for the
content required simplifying the search results UI. In general,
that change has been very positively received.
The lack of a language column, and a documentation set column is a
fairly minor annoyance to me amongst the other problems, the slow
search, and unpredictable behavior until the search is finished are
the two biggest problems I'm seeing. A particular example of which
that I experienced recently, in searching for "objective-c 2.0" to
find the runtime documentation, I saw it flash up in the left hand
column, clicked on it, and got quickly to the documentation. Only
for the search to complete, for some reason, the near exact match to
fall off the bottom of the list on the left, and the documentation
to switch to the documentation for stl_alloc.h, because somewhere in
the middle of the document it mentions the word "object".
Hope that clarifies some of the problems I've been hitting.
Thanks
Tom Davie
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