Re: Newbie questions about XCode
Re: Newbie questions about XCode
- Subject: Re: Newbie questions about XCode
- From: Jeffrey Oleander <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 03:51:40 -0800 (PST)
File a bug report/feature request at
http://bugreporter.apple.com/
and then, please, file another for me that
requiring Javascript to report a bug is a bug.
> On Wed, 2010/02/03, Johan Lund <email@hidden> wrote:
> From: Johan Lund <email@hidden>
> Subject: Newbie questions about XCode
> To: email@hidden
> Date: Wednesday, 2010 February 3, 04:33
> Hello seasoned XCode
> users!I am new to Objective-C, iPhone development and
> XCode and there are a couple of things that trips me up and
> makes me think that this that feature must exist - I just
> haven't found it yet etc.I'm coming over
> from Java and JavaScript and as such I am used to very
> feature rich IDE's (e.g. IntelliJ IDEA). But XCode has
> been around for a while now so I'm thinking to myself
> that it should be pretty mature by now.Anyway
> here are some questions I have collected during the day
> about basic functionality that I expect and some odd
> behaviors that I would like to understand why, along with
> some more exotic features that I am used to having in Java
> IDE's etc.
> Why does not camelcase
> completion work? e.g. typeing “UIPV” should cause
> UIPickerView to be suggested.
> Why does the editor
> not insert a closing brace automatically? I type a new
> method in my .m file and press enter after typing in the
> opening brace and it should automatically add the closing
> brace but it doesn’t.
> Why does the
> completion not know about variables declared in the .h
> file?Oh, it does, just
> found out... But only if you have saved your .h file, which
> brings me to my next question.
> This,
> having to save all the time is highly annoying. Especially
> when you add an outlet and switch into interface builder and
> its not there. Is there a way to automatically save the
> document everytime I switch between counterparts or into
> xcode or before compiling etc. In IntelliJ IDEA there is no
> need to save - ever! If you need to go back on something
> dangerous you just pull up local history, and in addition to
> that you have VCN.
> Why do I sometimes get
> two tabs instead of one? I find that I quite often have to
> press backspace on a new line because XCode inserted two
> tabs instead of one.
> Is there a way to add
> a newline after the one I am currently positioned in the
> middle of? Right now I am moving the the end of the line
> first then pressing enter but in e.g. IntelliJ IDEA I can
> just press shift enter.
> Is there a way to auto
> indent a block of code that has become a bit
> messy?
> Is there really no
> intelligent code generation built in? E.g.:
> If I
> nominate e.g. the fileowner in interface builder to be the
> delegate of some component, why does not XCode automatically
> offer to insert the necessary e.g. <UIPickerViewDelegate, UIPickerViewDataSource>
> in my .h file?
> If I add
> a property in my .h file I want XCode to be able to
> automatically add the corresponding synthesize statement in
> the .m file. If I add a method signature in my .h file I
> want XCode to automatically add it to the .m file. Can these
> things be done?
> Thankful for any
> answers, tips and tricks!
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