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Ah, yes. Apple seems to almost spitefully change document URLs on a regular basis too. (Which would be a little less terrible if you could simply re-Google th
by makecheck 7y ago
Ah, yes. Apple seems to almost spitefully change document URLs on a regular basis too. (Which would be a little less terrible if you could simply re-Google the replacement link but you can’t.)
My favorite experience was looking for virtual key codes. A few years ago, there was a point where the only place you could find the values of (arbitrary) virtual key codes for input events was in a printed copy of Inside Macintosh for System 7. Was this some ancient Mac? No, it was needed on OS X, by their “preferred” Cocoa/NSEvent no less, and their modern hardware was sending the same codes. They eventually “fixed” this by putting the information inside Carbon.framework header files (which will most likely just disappear in the next OS update).
- saagarjha 7y ago> Which would be a little less terrible if you could simply re-Google the replacement link but you can’t. Not only can you not do this, Apple's own site search doesn't bring them up. They just get lost :(
- maxxxxx 7y agoThat’s how modern design works. MS is using the same tech of broken links and empty pages.
- lstamour 7y agoI'll admit I get lost in the documentation (and various archived pages) from both companies, but at least I can still do a `site:docs.microsoft.com` Google search and get results! Banning search engines from your clearly archived content seems unnecessary and extreme ...
- maxxxxx 7y ago“Banning search engines from your clearly archived content seems unnecessary and extreme ...” Let’s hope MS won’t incorporate this “feature” in the race to make their docs worse:)
- lstamour 7y agoGood news, you can find Inside Macintosh online (via Google) and in https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/mac/pdf/MacintoshToolboxEssentials.pdf https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/ma... (Macintosh Toolbox Essentials) it lists the key codes graphically on page 2-42 and 2-43. There's also https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/mac/pdf/MoreMacintoshToolbox.pdf https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/ma... (More Macintosh Toolbox) and https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/mac/pdf/ImagingWithQuickDraw.pdf https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/ma... (Imaging with QuickDraw). Not that I'm suggesting this solves the problem -- I still had to use Google to find these, and outside of WWDC, I've yet to see Apple publish developer documentation as nice as this from the early 90s, or the WebObjects guides from the early 2000s (that you can also still find online). Maybe the Swift manual from https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/ https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/ (and in Apple Books store) or the CarPlay guide? https://developer.apple.com/carplay/documentation/CarPlay-Navigation-App-Programming-Guide.pdf https://developer.apple.com/carplay/documentation/CarPlay-Na... I do kind of miss when guides were more complete, such as the Automator Programming Guide http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.693.6773&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.693... (It appears it was removed in 2016 from developer.apple.com)
- machinecoffee 7y ago(Macintosh Toolbox Essentials) This brings a big smile of nostalgia to me - I remember reading this massive book and trying out all the system calls on my Metrowerks c++ compiler (system 7). I probably still have a copy of it lying about somewhere...
- makecheck 7y agoIt is kind of funny that one can Google the obsolete printed text more easily than the online ones.