Johnny Lundy wrote:
I never had any problem with a language's documentation since 1970
with the IBM 360 Reference Manual. That is, until I came across
Apple's documentation of Cocoa. I have never been so frustrated in
my life.
- Everything is defined in terms of something else.
- Interface Builder User Guide ignores the dozens of checkboxes and
popups that appear in the Bindings panes and instead rambles on for
pages about rarely-used features.
- "Examples" always say "Your code here" when My Code Here is what
I wanted to see.
The usual pattern for a User Guide & Reference Manual is for the
User Guide to have chapters corresponding to the areas of the
product, and the Reference Manual having a page or so listing all
the details of each element. The Apple docs have neither.
Like this:
- tag
Returns the tag.
See also : setTag
Great. Now if only I knew what a tag was....
I search in the documentation window of Xcode and – after 5 to 10
seconds only – find the explanation.
I have followed these threads, and I have a question to you – without
intending any insult: Why didn't *you* do this search? (Or did you?
But then ...) There should be a reason. If you tell the reason here,
all these experienced and ... ahem ... well ... yes ;-) ... gentle
people should be able to help you out of *this* – I think: basic –
problem.
Back to lurking
Klaus
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