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: Scott Thompson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:04:42 -0500
On Mar 24, 2011, at 12:55 PM, Joar Wingfors wrote:
> And again, Xcode 4 doesn't outright prevent you from working with multiple individual document windows if a particular task would require that, it's just not set up to support such a workflow to the same extent and with the same convenience as Xcode 3.
If I may make a point of observation on this.
One thing I find exceedingly annoying about Xcode 4's multiple document window support is the fact that it considers the entire workspace to be a "document". I much prefer the model where an individual source file is a document.
This distinction comes into play when you consider the window title, the title menu, and the window's document proxy icon. In Xcode 4, for an "individual document window", the document proxy icon and the title menu of that window still reference the workspace.
This has been a great frustration for me, as I regularly drag files around using their document proxy icons. I have learned that I am in the habit of using the menu bar's contextual menu to drop me into various folders within the hierarchy leading to a file. I can't tell you how many time's I've popped up that contextual menu in Xcode 4 and cursed.
Moreover, I was accustomed to being able to use multiple source file windows and I would switch between them with Exposé. Thankfully the longer title on the window (offering the name of the file being edited) has solved a problem where similar looking Xcode 4 windows in Exposé were impossible to distinguish, but there is still a lot of visual noise in the title as every single window is showing the same project name at the front.
I guess my point is that while Xcode 4 does allow you to create multiple windows, it does so with clever games to work around its own limitations, the illusion is not complete and that has proven to be frustrating for me.
Scott Thompson
Who feels like he is constantly refereeing Xcode 4's myriad panes in a turf war. _______________________________________________
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