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: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:04:17 -0700
On Mar 22, 2011, at 8:58 PM, Joar Wingfors wrote:
>> It's the same with my little tip about the Console that I mentioned earlier. It solves the problem of seeing the Console full-page in *this* project, once you've set it up, but in another project you'd have to set it up all over again. This is frustrating because what we are trying to configure is a totally independent universal, The Console. To Xcode, it is merely yet another window of *this one project* (or workspace).
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> IIRC that's not supposed to be the case if you use named tabs, like I suggested. They're supposed to be shared across all workspaces / projects.
How do you figure? If I make the Console tab in accordance with my tip, it's still in project A where I made it; that's what it means to be a tab. If I open project B, the Console tab isn't there - it's in project A (and if project A isn't open, of course there's no Console tab anywhere).
Moreover, there's no simple way of navigating to the Console tab: its name doesn't appear in any menu, for instance. Giving it a name seems almost pointless.
Moreover (and this is the point), the *purpose* of this tab is to let me see the console while my app is running. But if I run project B, the Console tab in project A doesn't show anything. It's empty.
This, it seems to me, is the most legitimate of all the various noises we're hearing on this list in response to Xcode 4.
Personally, I love Xcode 4. I thought Xcode 3 was crufty and clumsy; I think the Xcode 4 redesign is brilliant and well-principled, and I'm *much* more nimble in most of Xcode 4 (I say "most of" because the documentation window is a total disaster - clearly no one stood over a user and watched him click a zillion times in order to reach a desired doc page and then search inside it). And I think many of the charges leveled against it are baseless; reading the docs, watching the videos, and practicing a few keyboard shortcuts would eliminate the pain of change.
But the Console is a good example of something that doesn't fit into the everything-is-a-project paradigm. The name says it all: The. Console. This is a place with important messages for me. I need to be able to see it, all the time, at will. Xcode 4 makes that harder than it should be.
m.
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