Re: Solved. Re: updating help-book in Xcode
Re: Solved. Re: updating help-book in Xcode
- Subject: Re: Solved. Re: updating help-book in Xcode
- From: John Velman <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:44:26 -0700
- Mail-followup-to: John Velman <email@hidden>, Xcode Users List <email@hidden>
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:59:33AM -0700, Chris Espinosa wrote:
>
> On Jul 22, 2009, at 10:32 AM, John Velman wrote:
>
>> Thanks to all who answered. A couple of messages stimulated my thinking,
>> and I've found what seems to be a simple approach.
>>
>> Under targets, select the blue help folder, and press compile! This is
>> simple enough for me, and is a lot better than "clean". When I understand
>> Xcode better, probably this could be put into a script. But I can do it
>> by
>> hand easily enough for now.
>
> I'm extremely curious as to why this actually works for you.
What can I say. It worked. I confess to not being much of an Xcode
expert. I've read much of Anderson's book -- at least the part's I've
needed so far :-).
>
> The root cause of the problem, as already mentioned, is that Xcode treats
> the folder reference (blue folder) as an atomic item, and copies its
> contents in an all-or-nothing fashion. It only checks the modification
> date of the folder itself, not of the individual files in it. So if you
> add or remove files from the folder, it will be re-copied on the next
> build, but if you simply edit the contents of a file in it, Xcode will not
> just copy that one updated file.
I'll try the bash 'touch'. I tried the Xcode menu 'touch' and it didn't
seem to make any difference.
>
> I don't know of any mechanism whereby selecting the folder and choosing
> Compile would do what you're asking, but I'll poke around and see if
> there's some obscure mechanism that does it.
>
> The best way is to use the Terminal and enter "touch
> /full/path/to/the/helpbook/folder" to mark the folder as changed, then
> Xcode will recopy the folder without having to do a full clean.
>
> Chris
Best,
John V.
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