Re: Hello Newbiee Online, and auto completion quesiton
Re: Hello Newbiee Online, and auto completion quesiton
- Subject: Re: Hello Newbiee Online, and auto completion quesiton
- From: "Leo Revzin (Zevrix Solutions)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:02:43 -0500
- Thread-topic: Hello Newbiee Online, and auto completion quesiton
Title: Re: Hello Newbiee Online, and auto completion quesiton
As I'm sure others will point you as well, you need to check the Code Sense->Code Completion Preferences.
Depending on the Xcode version you're using, you'll get different results.
In Xcode 2.x Apple has an excellent auto-completion system when you instantly get the list of available suggestions in a pop-up menu.
In Xcode 3, Apple castrated their own excellent system. Instead of the pop-up with suggestions, you'll get a grayish hard-to-read line which, if you're lucky, will display something related to what you need.
If you press Return, then if you're lucky something good will happen. In some cases, however, will happen something that Apple developers decided is supposed to happen, which has nothing to do with what you actually need. Then you need to select-delete whatever is spewed into your code and to call the good old routine by pressing Escape. Which will call the good old suggestions pop-up which appeared automatically in previous versions.
Also, in many cases, you're not going to get any auto-suggestion, like it was in previous versions, until you type almost the whole word. So, instead of just writing the code, you'll have to type and look, type and look again, to find out what the new auto-completion system decided to offer you.
The correct name for the preference in Xcode 3 would be not Code Sense, but Code Nonsense.
So, unless you have to develop for iPhone, I recommend you to download Xcode 2.5 from the Apple developer site, and forget about Xcode 3 till it's actually ready for productive work.
OK, that's my positive speech for tonight.
I still need to submit the "enhancement" request to Apple: please enhance Xcode 3 by restoring the great auto-completion feature you had all these years, and which you killed for absolutely no reason.
Best,
Leo
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From: Gustavo Pizano <email@hidden>
Subject: Hello Newbiee Online, and auto completion quesiton
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Hello, guys, well this is kind of an introduction of myself, and a
question I have. Im new ot Objective-C and Xcode development, Im doing
a "self-learning", Im a computer-science Engineer, and well most of
the terms and theoretical things I understand. while reading about
Objective-C, Im doing some simple exercises, to get familiar with the
language, now Im "declaring" my methods in the header file (.h) , I
was wondering what will happen if in one header fiel I have a lot of
methods declaration?... will I have to copy or retype them to the
implementation file (.m)?, So I was reading and I founf that Xcode has
some Auto Completion feature which allows me to generate the method
code in the (.m) file based on the header file, the point is that I
can't figure it out how to do such a thing. If you can help me out I
will appreciate it.
And well, I will be posting here and in the Objective-c and Cocoa dev
list, if I have any doubt, I hope (and I know ) your knowledge will be
of great help for me.
Thank you very much.
Regards
Gustavo
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