Re: Xcode...
Re: Xcode...
- Subject: Re: Xcode...
- From: Wade Tregaskis <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 22:17:23 +1000
I went to Job's keynote. Couldn't attend sessions.
From what he showed, there are some new things. Changing source code
while
running in the debugger. Compiling while you type instead of making
you
wait.
Since I can already change source code while in the debugger of PB
right now, I'm a little puzzled... will the app automagically pick up
the change and recompile while debugging? Or what is the advantage
over the behaviour we already have.
Yes, the app will be changed while running. So if you find a bug, you
can fix the code, then continue and test it immediately. This probably
isn't as helpful as it sounds, because most bugs will put your app into
a unsurvivable state anyway, requiring you to restart it. But it could
be helpful, nonetheless, for those odd occasions where you want to try
something a few different ways, or somesuch.
Also, does anybody know more about this code completion? Is it
Realbasic-like with grey text and you hit a key if you want it, or is
it like in iTunes where it constantly changes what you've written and
thus messes up more than it does good? Or is it halfway in between
like Eclipse, where it pops up an additional window but sometimes
assumes you hit return when you didn't?
I pray it's not like iTunes - I wish I could turn it's auto-completion
(aka spastic name mangling) off. But I fear, with all this swapping of
ideas lately within Apple, they're going to produce just such a
monster. Looking at the xCode screenshots, there's no room for
anything in a status bar or similar, so it must be either a popup or a
grey text bit. Personally I think the grey text is a better approach -
it won't obscure any other code - but the bigger problem I'm
anticipating is when you're adding code in the middle of a line... is
it going to still popup suggestions, or is it going to play dumb and
try to offer suggestions on the mangled line? Perhaps everyone else
manages to write their code completely left to right, top to bottom,
without ever going back and changing anything, but I can't.
Wade Tregaskis
-- Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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