Actually, my point (which I diluded by talking about XCode) is that nobody is responsible for either your education or your entertainment but you. If you are feeling either stupid or bored (either of which can be synonymous with "dull") it is almost assuredly your own responsiblity to fix it. -andrew

Hm, maybe I just had bad expectations about it. I've pretty much quit using it and just put printf's all over in my code to figure out what's what. If I recall correctly, I never could get breakpoints to trigger reilably. -andrew

Having used BRIEF as a consultant, learned (and proselytized) EMACS while in college, switched to Visual Studio and similar tools in the mid 90's (when there was not much else out there), switched back to EMACS, and finally taken the time to learn VI and it's musclebound cousin VIM, I feel I can authoritatively say that the tool with the single highest reward-to-learning-curve ratio is VI. One either thinks as a programmer or does not. If one thinks as a programmer, then the editor should logically reflect that thought structure.

Hm, I know that VI does syntax coloring for Obj-C, I use it all the time! If you feel you are not getting any smarter, perhaps you should try LEARNING something. Or are you using "smarter" as a euphamism for being entertained by a shiny IDE where the primary feature is a debugger, and I quote, "That's so good I never have to think." And no, I'm not talking about XCode. As far as I can tell, that debugger is nearly unusable.

IIRC 734 is the height of the desktop when the monitor is set to 768 high but there is a start bar at the bottom of the screen.

fat_boy wrote:

You have flakey software. Design it for all appearances.

That's easy to say, but I can't think of anything on Windows that really continues to work right if you change all of the appearance settings. This is doubly true of changing the font size. It is the Windows GDI equivalent of a multi-user Access database. Clearly, something other than just getting work done is what is important here. "my black text on a black background is unreadable in your app"