Archive for the 'Xcode' Category
Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
How many times have you been bitten by the problem of moving a window in Interface Builder, for easier editing, and then neglecting to put it back before saving it? Sometimes this can pop up as an embarrassing bug when you realize that your preferences have been saving an appropriate location for the window, but […]
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Sunday, December 4th, 2005
Scenario If you’re developing software with Xcode, you’re familiar with the typical process of adding a new source file to your project. You hit Cmd-N, and then either navigate or typeselect to the desired file type. Usually, if you’re a Cocoa programmer, this means getting past all the AppleScript, BSD, and Carbon templates you don’t […]
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Thursday, November 10th, 2005
I’m excited to see Xcode 2.2 unleashed for the world to enjoy. I’ve been using a pre-release of it for a week or two, and have been itching to share some of the less obvious improvements I’ve noticed in this release. GDB’s Info Shared Command Yee haw! How cool is this? The bug I described […]
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Sunday, November 6th, 2005
I like the Search-Fieldy kind of thing in Xcode. If you select the top-level project item in the “Groups and Files”, and then enter something in the search box, it makes it really easy to pinpoint a particular file that is contained by your project. Apple even gave this search box thingy a keyboard shortcut, […]
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