Natterings

Fluid as Xcode Documentation Viewer

A standalone Documentation Viewer for Xcode with tabs, bitches.

The Fluid part was easy. But every tab looked like this:

“Oh, C’mon!” …the redundant “iPhone Dev Center: ” was wasting my precious tab real estate. Fortunately they’re just HTML, albeit hidden away inside a bundle.

Enter TextWrangler. It’s free, it’s awesome. I buy BBEdit, but I use TextWrangler.

I ran TextWrangler over /Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/Documentation/DocSets/com.apple.adc.documentation.AppleiPhone3_1.iPhoneLibrary.docset/Contents/Resources/Documents to make the tabs readable:

Whoops, of course Apple distributes their docs as read-only:

Yeah, I’m not going to click “Unlock” a few thousand times.

So I ended up doing this to help TextWrangler do its thing. Woot!

/Developer/Platforms $ sudo chgrp -R admin *

Maybe that’s “bad” but I figure I can always reinstall the SDK if things are completely hosed by the group change.

I only have the iPhone Developer SDK installed, so your paths and milage may vary. But if you’re determined, this bit of yak shaving might pay off.

Maybe I should open a Radar.

Update: Since I needed an awesome Icon, I chose Communicator from Iconfactory’s Official Star Trek Icons.