From: Gavin Kistner <gavin@...>
Date: 2005-06-10T22:08:20+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RDoc Dashboard Widget

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On Jun 10, 2005, at 12:50 AM, David Felstead wrote:
> Hi everyone - sorry for the cross-post from the rails list, but  
> since I
> don't normally post here...
>
> This is just a quick announcement to let people know that I've built a
> basic RDoc Dashboard widget for Mac OS X Tiger.  It's still beta-ish,
> but seems to work okay for me - and it's a convenient reference  
> tool to
> boot :)

Hot damn, that's awesome! Just what I was looking for and thinking of  
when Tiger came out.

Four requests:
1) Allow it to take file:// urls (for local speedy caches) e.g.
file:///Users/gavinkistner/Sites/Ruby/doc/index.html

2) (formatting) The separation of methods is not easy to visually  
see. I suggest making the method heads bold, monospaced font, and  
with additional vertical padding above (and possibly a line below,  
and possibly indent their contents).

3) It's nice to click on a method and see the source code but...how  
do I get back?

4) (lotta work, I assume) Option to use ri information from the local  
system instead of parsing HTML from RDoc

One bug:
1) After supplying the file:// URL and getting 404 in the left pane,  
I typed in the default ruby-doc address again. Nothing is showing up  
in the Classes pane. I can switch to Files and Methods and see  
content there, but returning to Classes shows emptiness. Typing and  
clearing in the filter box still leaves it empty. Only by removing  
and re-adding the widget could I get it to show up again.


Despite all the above, I'll be immediately installing this on all my  
other machines and using it. Thanks!

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