Re: Hide window header on other Xcode4 windows?
Re: Hide window header on other Xcode4 windows?
- Subject: Re: Hide window header on other Xcode4 windows?
- From: G S <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:09:42 -0700
> See? *That's* the reason why we suspect Apple's Xcode team is a Microsoft spin off.
Since you didn't state a reason, and since nobody who has used a
variety of development tools would ever suspect this, this sounds like
the royal "we."
Now let's take a look at a proper answer:
"Xcode 4 allows you to have multiple windows open, but it does not
support specialized windows. In Xcode 3, you could have different
types of windows: a project window, source editing windows, a console
window, a debugging window, nib editing windows (the nib editing
windows were so specialized, they ran in a separate application). Each
type could be configured so that every project window had the same
features which were different than each of the editing windows. Every
window in Xcode 4 is just a project window in disguise and may change
from a source editing layout to a debugging layout to a project layout
depending on what you do in Xcode 4."
This useful summary indicates that it's not the "single window" view
that's the problem, because Xcode doesn't constrain you to it. You
can have separate windows open on double- on Option-click; it's right
there in the preferences.
The problem is actually the SAME one that afflicts users of the
single-window view: Xcode re-uses or reconfigures windows OR PANES
instead of respecting what the user has put in each one. The problem
permeates everything you do with window or pane arrangement, even the
"Assistant" view. If you have the header file on the left and source
on the right, and then hit a breakpoint, Xcode will inexplicably swap
that arrangement and put the source on the left (a pane that you've
probably set up narrower than the right because it has only a header
file in it). It also won't find a tab or window that already has the
relevant source open when you hit a breakpoint or click on an error;
it simply switches the contents of whatever pane or window you last
used. Annoying. Bug report filed.
Then there's Xcode's ridiculous insistence on putting long lines of
descriptive text (search results, errors) in the tall, narrow column
at the left of the screen. Visual Studio puts these in tabs at the
bottom, which stretch all the way across the screen AND can be torn
off and made separate windows. What's the problem with that?
You can't expect the Xcode team to fix anything when you don't provide
CONCISE, orderly rundowns of what the problems are. Snide comments
about the team don't help any of us analyze the issue or make
suggestions.
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