Re: Xcode 4 UI customizability curiosities
Re: Xcode 4 UI customizability curiosities
- Subject: Re: Xcode 4 UI customizability curiosities
- From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:03:23 -0500
On Jan 22, 2013, at 5:07 PM, Igor Delovski wrote:
> I used to be able to assign custom key combinations to certain Xcode tasks from Keyboard in System Prefs, but that stopped working in recent versions of Xcode. For some reason menus in Xcode ignore these settings. Same thing with Safari for example. Yahoo mail has some issues with latest Safari versions so I need to change user agent to Opera for example. I can assign a key combination to it, but it's not responding so I need to set user agent every time with the mouse.
>
> Just recently I bought TimeCapsule. Constant fight as it backs up 400 MB every hour even if nothing's changed. Today I had enough so I turned off automatic back ups.
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> The point is, using almost any software has become a strugle. I am working with multiple windows in Xcode, I really need separate windows for debugger, for search results, console output, IB and then at least one for some code editting. In each project I have these files: Run-Debug.h, Notes.h, Search-Results.h and Console.h and I had hot keys assigned to these names in System Prefs for Xcode. As I said, it stopped working in recent versions so now I need to jump around with the mouse.
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> Igor
Igor, this is exactly what kills me about Xcode. We know how to open and manage and toggle between windows. Command `. Yes, the key right above the Tab key. THIS. IS. NOT. THAT. HARD.
Xcode prevents us from simply opening a new window that might be a debugger, that might be the stand alone console, that might be a storyboard.
Instead, you must create a tab, navigate to that tab, change the view of that tab to the thing you want, detach that tab and it becomes a window and supposedly, Xcode is supposed to remember this.
Well, it doesn't.
This lack of basic functionality, oops, I mean replacing basic functionality with cumbersome functionality, makes editing and debugging much more painful than it needs to be. It's a window for god's sake, you guys taught us how to use this metaphor and it works. Stop making simple tasks much more difficult. Xcode guys, LET US OPEN IMPORTANT THINGS in their own window without having to go through hoops. Let us save that window configuration and then DO NOT MESS WITH IT EVER.
Really.
Trying to do everything in one window is not the dream experience for the developers that you think it is.
Igor, if you want your own console output window, I wrapped NSLog so that it can output to a file I can tail in Terminal. It sits as I window just the way I want it, I can clear it with a command key and Xcode doesn't mess with it. Let me know if you want the code, but really, it's embarrassing that we have to resort to writing our own basic functionality to simply get a window of debug output that we can control.
Email me if you want it. It's nothing special, but it works and at least Xcode isn't rearranging it all the time whenever it wants to.
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