Re: Why does XCode 4 always open files up to maximum size?
Re: Why does XCode 4 always open files up to maximum size?
- Subject: Re: Why does XCode 4 always open files up to maximum size?
- From: Jean-Denis Muys <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:13:34 +0000
- Thread-topic: Why does XCode 4 always open files up to maximum size?
On 23 mars 2011, at 01:23, Matt Neuburg wrote:
Okay, but the thing is you *can* do that in Xcode 4. First of all, all 3 projects can be brought together in a workspace, which can be used as the "master window" for the whole affair. That's pretty cool. Then, to open something an another window, just
double-click it in the Project navigator (command-1). If what you want is 38 windows you'll soon have 38 windows. You could also set things up so that option-clicking it (or option-choosing it in the jump bar) also opened it in another window.
However, I think part of the problem for you is that when such a window opens it is initially configured as a duplicate of the parent that spawned it. Thus each time you spawn off a window you may have to spend a little time configuring it.
What you are pointing out, and what I think Joar is not quite grappling with in his responses, is that to you a window represents *the thing* it shows. Thus, you would like a certain file to open its window in a certain position and configuration *every* time
- you think of the window and its position as a property of the *file*. (As someone pointed out, that's how BBEdit works.) This is what Xcode completely does away with.
I think you are correct. I have labelled this idea elsewhere as the "spatial" window. This whole debate really reminds me of the debate about the spatial Finder that raged some time ago (see John Siracusa's long series of Mac OS X reviews at Ars Technica).
This certainly suggests that part of the cause for frustration is the cost of adapting to the "browser" window model from the "spatial" window model. An interesting question is to what extent these two models are intrinsically equally productive.
After having worked with IDEs that favor the "browser" model (eg Visual Studio, Eclipse) and IDEs that allows for the "spatial" model (eg Xcode 3) I personally came to the conclusion that *I* am intrinsically (ie after factoring out learning effects…) much
more productive with a "spatial" model. I have no idea whether this conclusion can be generalized.
Jean-Denis
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