In the past I think I've ranted about the Cool Thing that is Cocoa Browser. (If not, I should, it's damn useful) Well, there's a companion of sorts to it, AppKiDo. While Cocoa Browser lets you browse the docs for individual classes in the Foundation And AppKit frameworks (showing the hierarchy, of course) AppKiDo goes one step further and allows you to browse the docs for all the parent classes for a class simultaneously. This is useful, as the Cocoa frameworks make heavy use of inheritance, and it's not uncommon to have to bounce up a class or three to find a method.
While AppKiDo's not quite as Visually Swell as Cocoa Browser, it means you don't have to dig through a dozen parent classes to find the method you're looking for--it shows (if you ask) all the methods that an object of class NSX can perform, regardless of which class in the hierarchy is providing the method.
I like 'em both, and when I'm doing CamelBones stuff, I keep them both in my Dock.
Posted by Dan at July 21, 2003 12:03 PM | TrackBack (0)