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Re: from symbol name to full documentation in Xcode 4
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Re: from symbol name to full documentation in Xcode 4


  • Subject: Re: from symbol name to full documentation in Xcode 4
  • From: JongAm Park <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:54:20 -0700

Right. To me option-command-double click is more useful than the quick help or mini help.
The explanation on mini help usually doesn't help at all. In Objective-C, it has named parameters. So, for the information in mini help, we already know what we need to have by using code sense.


I think the idea presented with Xcode 4, was either :

- bring mini help first, and you can click links there as Reference and Related Documents or the half-open book icon on the right-top of the mini help
- control-option-command-/ for the selected text brings the whole document. ( However it is to pressing 4 keys on a keyboard. Why doesn't Xcode 4 allow mouse clicking? You can't even set any combination of those keys and clicking or double-clicking in Xcode 4 keyboard shortcut preference. )


So, you need to go either 2 step approach ( the 1st one above ) or press all meta keys + /. (Glad that we human beings have 5 fingers on one hand each. )

What I don't like also is, as many people complaint already, the single iTunes window.
I like the compact window setting of Xcode 3.x, because you can resize document window and others to be able to see almost everything at once.With Xcode 4, I started to need a bigger screen or dual screen. ( At home, I have an old PPC iMac 17" and 15" CRT screen. But nowdays I write codes on my 13" MacBook. At work, I use 17" MacBook Pro and 17"/24" dual LCD screens for Windows programming for a desktop Windows machine. So, at work or at home, I can open Apple's document on other monitors, although I don't like online version opened with a web browser. )
Although I can use other monitors, in libraries and other areas where I take only my 13" MacBooks ( I don't consider 17" MacBook Pro "portable". It's just "movable". ) With Xcode 3.x, 13" MacBooks are very useable but, with Xcode 4, no. I waste most of time for bringing document window and code window back and forth.


JongAm Park
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