Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!csn!datran2!smb From: smb@data.com (Steven M. Boker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: call for built in IB documenter Message-ID: <1991Mar22.155708.10365@data.com> Date: 22 Mar 91 15:57:08 GMT References: <1991Mar20.165430.2364@data.com> <27533@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Organization: Data Transforms, Inc. Lines: 43 In article <27533@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> mfi@serc.cis.ufl.edu (Mark Interrante) writes: > >I am more interested in what other developers think should be included >in upcoming versions of IB. It seems that additional interface/data structure >classes can be easily incorporated into IB so that is no longer an >issue for IB-only development. > >Possible areas: > >1. configuration support tools (multiuser) > >2. an integrated graphical compiler/debugging tools. (ala mac/PC >tools) of course this need not be part of IB per se. > >3. I would like the ability to double click on just about anything in >IB and have it open up or at least have an inspector popup. > >4. ? > >This is one tool that NeXT has the lead in, what do others want >included to help maintain that lead? I don't have any earthshaking suggestions, but I'd like to keep this ball rolling. Mark and I seem to have a common interest here. 4. How about an easier way to track down all of the inherited methods of a class? I am forever looking up ObscureClassDefinition to find that it inherits from AnotherObscureClass which inherits from StillAnotherObscureClass. After alot of mucking about, I've more or less learned them, but a class documentor which read all of the inherited (and overridden) methods and dynamically produced one .rtf file with the union of the class and its inherited methods and variables would be a boon. Here is one area where on-line documentation could really shine. Override a method and the documentation file dynamically rebuilds itself to reflect the new class definition. Steve. -- #====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====# # Steve Boker # En Vino Kaos # # smb@data.com # En Kaos Veritas # #====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#