Access to THINK Reference Databases is made easy with the THINK Reference Viewer. This slim, powerful application was designed to work the way a developer works. It includes a newly revised search engine with blistering speed and tremendous flexibility in defining search profiles. The Viewer supports images, copy-able source code or function prototyles, embedded hyper links to other parts of a database and to external web pages.
Using THINK Reference Viewer's Super-Responsive "Find" Feature
Let's try out the Find feature. Select Find and you'll get a familiar looking dialog. Let's search for "Dogcow".
The search begins, and in less than a second, the first results appear in a window. You can immediately browse the found documents while THINK Reference is searching. There is no waiting.
Click on the image to see the color version (16K).
You can use Command-Up and Command-Down to rapidly browse the found documents. If your search yields twenty documents, you can take a quick glance at each one and evaluate it for appropriateness. At the demonstration booth at WWDC, several people commented that, "this is the way it should work," and noted that other programs don't work this way.
It's difficult to actually understand the full benefits of THINK Reference without playing with it and experiencing it's shear speed in not only searching, but user interface.