Xcode Help : No Editor

When you open your help (cmd+?) do you have all four sections there?

1) Search Results ( big and on top)
2) Help Content ( big and on bottom)
3) Topics ( Tall Narrow on the left)
4) Bookmarks ( Narrow on left)

Do you have all those? You may need to pull down the Help content pane or something??

As far as the missing editor? Can you explain a little more? When you launch XCODE you will not get a window open unless you open a project. So the first time you open it it will only show up in your dock and in the menu bar. You can open a new project with cmd shiftn

Cheers
Tom

If you look at the bottom on 1) Search Results is there a dot in the middle at the very very bottom. You might be able to drag that panel up and see your help content.

Does this help?

I don't really understand when you say you are missing the editor.... In the help documentation there is no editor. There will only be an editor when you are working on a code file or a project. It will only show when you open a text editable file and it will either be in the project window or its own window.

So you do have the window where you are supposed to have the help correct?

If so try selecting something from the coloumn on the left at the top. Select something like audio and double click it. What does it do ?

Tom

Well next to the safari picture you should be able to change that to something. Click it and it should drop down to it. Does that help?

Tom

Is this a fresh copy of xcode? It sounds like some thing in your preferences have been messed up? also You might see if it happens when you use cmd+? and cmd opt?. It may not change or it might you never know.


Tom

Did you just install it or has it been instlled for a while, maybe you played with the settings some?


Tom

it may be that the uninstall screwed things up. Unless someone else gives a better idea, try uninstalling xCode with either ( i cant remember if XCODE has an uninstaller if so use it do a complete uninstall then an install again) If it does not have an uninstaller use a programm like App Zapper.

Tom

i cant remember if
XCODE has an uninstaller if so use it do a complete
uninstall then an install again

Xcode does have an uninstaller. It's a perl script that needs to be run using sudo in Terminal. The script can be found in /Developer/Tools and run as:
<pre>
sudo perl /Developer/Tools/uninstall-devtools.pl
</pre>
If you've already dragged the Developer folder to the Trash and emptied it then you can also find and run the uninstall script from the Xcode Tools disk image. It's found in the Utilities folder of the dmg.
<pre>
sudo perl /Volumes/Xcode\ Tools/Utilities/uninstall-devtools.pl
</pre>
The uninstall script cleans up some things outside of the Developer folder that you would not have deleted by simply throwing away the folder.

Steve