{"id":254,"date":"2007-01-10T09:37:56","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T16:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/254\/interface-builder-tip"},"modified":"2007-01-10T10:04:44","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T17:04:44","slug":"interface-builder-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/254\/interface-builder-tip","title":{"rendered":"Interface Builder Tip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to beat up on Interface Builder, which until 10.5 ships, still feels a little crufty. It&#8217;s lagged behind Xcode in the major overhaul department. But sometimes I discover features that suprise me, like this tidbit from Apple&#8217;s Technical Q&#038;A:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/developer.apple.com\/qa\/qa2006\/qa1323.html\">Q&#038;A 1323: Interface element identification in Interface Builder<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n(Link compliments of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tensaimac.com\/\">Justin Anderson<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat the Q&#038;A describes is a way to quickly identify the UI corresponding with any UI instance in IB&#8217;s hierarchical instance view. Just hold down control-shift and click an item:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/blog\/images\/IBShowUITip.png\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBefore learning of this feature, I&#8217;d just double-click items in the list to see where they were. A clunkier and less precise mechanism for browsing the whole nib quickly. Note: I had trouble getting this to work, but it seemed to me that if I just tried a few times it &#8220;cleaned out IB&#8217;s pipes&#8221; or something. Or maybe I was just doing it wrong at first.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCombined with Scott Stevenson&#8217;s recent <a href=\"http:\/\/theocacao.com\/document.page\/401\">bindings visualization<\/a> discoveries, there seem to be a heap of features that I simply haven&#8217;t noticed. I guess I better keep my mouth shut before lambasting it too hard&#8230; nah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy to beat up on Interface Builder, which until 10.5 ships, still feels a little crufty. It&#8217;s lagged behind Xcode in the major overhaul department. But sometimes I discover features that suprise me, like this tidbit from Apple&#8217;s Technical Q&#038;A: Q&#038;A 1323: Interface element identification in Interface Builder (Link compliments of Justin Anderson) What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,11,15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-cocoa","category-programming","category-xcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redsweater.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}