How to enable the Research Assistant in XCode?

Question

Hi, I created an empty project in XCode and have added all of my source code files to it. I do not have any build options/configurations set since the project was empty and I use my old Makefile from the command-line to build the app. Everything works - but...

My problem is that it is a tad annoying not to have the information at my fingertips since the Research Assistant isn't showing any information at all!

The Research Assistant is shown but it doesn't show any information, I guess that it must be instructed to so somehow - but how? Is there a way to enable the Research Assistant and how?? Also, note that I have all the documentation available (but not from the Research Assistant)!

Thanks in advance! /John

Answer 1

When using XCode with Research Assistant displayed, I find it only shows info when you highlight something in your code. For example, if you had:

NSString *foo;

And you highlighted (clicked on) NSString then the Research Assistant will give you definitions of NSString, the API is belongs in, etc.

Answer 2

Ok, problem is kind of solved.

I tried to create a new simple iPhone project and then removed all of the included project files, instead of creating an empty project. Then I added my original files to the project and when I started editing - WHAM - the Research Assistant immediately showed all the gory details for all the symbols! :-)

But it is rather annoying to not know how to fix this manually from an empty project...

/John

Answer 3

Additionally you can add your own items to the XCode help system, and they will be displayed in the research assistant.

http://developer.apple.com/tools/creatingdocsetswithdoxygen.html