Re: What are your tips for navigating the Xcode interface faster?
Re: What are your tips for navigating the Xcode interface faster?
- Subject: Re: What are your tips for navigating the Xcode interface faster?
- From: Laurent Daudelin <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:37:55 -0700
On Aug 21, 2012, at 13:44, Lee Ann Rucker <email@hidden> wrote:
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> On Aug 21, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Jens Alfke wrote:
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>> On Aug 21, 2012, at 5:16 AM, Alex Zavatone <email@hidden> wrote:
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>>> It shows the variable types and memory addresses, but never the things that I actually care about, the values. The "summary" is always empty.
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>> Summaries of object-valued ivars, you mean? The summary is only shown for some known Foundation classes like NSString and NSArray. (I think there may be a way to customize it?) If you want to see the state of an object-valued ivar, flip it open too. It's exactly the kind of recursive inspector you're asking for, I think.
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>>> It's stuff like this that make me go WTF, Apple, WTF? Back in 1996, we had features like this in Director and I even wrote my own recursive object inspector
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>> Watch out, you're sounding like an Old Fart. (And I think I'm older than you, so I can say that ;-) Watch out or I'll start waving my walker and ranting about what we used to be able to do in the Smalltalk-80 debugger; and then the other Old Farts will get riled up about ALGOL and the Burroughs B5000 and we'll never get anything done again.
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> Like moving the stack pointer back when you've accidentally stepped over instead of in. (I didn't write it, but it was my idea)
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> XCode was supposed to get something like that - it was all the buzz at WWDC a few years back. Whatever happened to it?
Aren't you supposed to drag the PC pointer back to where you want it to be? I haven't used it recently but I thought I did use it not too long ago with Xcode 4...
-Laurent.
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