How to get Xcode 4.3 to maintain a second console window in a second monitor
How to get Xcode 4.3 to maintain a second console window in a second monitor
- Subject: How to get Xcode 4.3 to maintain a second console window in a second monitor
- From: David Hoerl <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 15:30:56 -0400
I was telling my friend Rainer Brockerhoff how terribly unhappy some
Xcode 4 developers are to have lost the ability to use a separate
monitor for console use. He mentioned it to his friend Martin
Pilkington, who has developed the following technique that I just tested
and found to work with some caveats. First, I'll provide the technique,
then the caveats.
- Create a new Tab in some project, and name it ("Console" is a good
choice :-) )
- Tear the Console tab off the main window, drag it to your second
monitor, and resize if desired. Set it up to show the console, not show
the left file list, etc.
- Edit Behaviors, "Run Starts", check "Show tab" and enter "Console".
- Run the project and observe log messages dumped into Console window
- From the File menu, Close Project. Note both windows go away
- From the File menu, reopen the project, and note the two windows
re-appearing on the appropriate monitors
--- Caveats ---
- if you close a window, and then close the project, things get messed
up and you may need to recreate the main window (File -> New Window) and
put it back on the primary monitor.
- Behaviors are system wide, and from now on Xcode will look for a
Console tab to show, and if not found, it will diligently create one for
you and open it on Run. So this technique is for the most part all or
nothing.
Unfortunately you have to create the Console tab, tear it off, and put
omn second monitor for each of your projects - or remember to turn the
behavior on and off. Maybe I missed something and this is somehow easier.
David
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