Xcode Tip Of The Day

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Semi-regular tips and tricks for using Xcode, Apple’s integrated development environment for Mac OS X and iPhone applications.

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Joined March 2009

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  1. Xcode 4 Pro Tip: Use Behaviors (See: Preferences) to control how Xcode, well, behaves. Power overwhelming!!!

  2. Xcode 4 Pro Tip: Use Edit All in Scope, Cmd+Ctrl+E or the little pop-up menu, for quick and easy local rename refactoring.

  3. mogenerator 1.23 is out. It’s a biggie http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/post/7978723499/mogenerator-1-23

  4. GitX (L) v 0.8.3 is out, with OSX 10.7 Lion support,

  5. Xcode 4 Pro Tip: Jump to Definition. Can use Cmd+Ctrl+J on the selected text, but preferably simply Cmd+Click on anything to go to its def.

  6. Xcode 4 Pro Tip: Jump to Next / Previous Counterpart (Cmd+Ctrl+UpArrow / DownArrow - Or vertical three-finger swipe on trackpads)

  7. Xcode 4 Pro Tip: Learn to switch between using Run (Cmd+R), Build for Running (Cmd+B / Cmd+Shift+R) or Run Without Building (Cmd+Ctrl+R)

  8. Xcode 4 Pro Tip: Use Cmd+Return, Cmd+Option+Return and Cmd+Option+Shift+Return to switch between the Standard, Assistant and Version editors

  9. Xcode 4 Pro Tip: Add the Option modifier to open in the "other" editor. Add Option+Shift to open the Navigation HUD.

  10. Xcode 4 Pro Tip: Open Quickly, Cmd+Shift+O

  11. Xcode 4.0.1 is also available now in the Mac App Store, a free update to 4.0 http://developer.apple.com/xcode

  12. Xcode 4.0.1 is a full-size download, not a delta, so it’s 4.25Gb.

  13. Xcode 4.0.1 is bug fixes, performance improvements, and fixes the hang when installing.

  14. Xcode 4.0.1, a bug fix release, now available for free download in Mac Dev Center and iOS Dev Center. Release notes

  15. : add exception breakpoint == Stop on Objective-C Exceptions in xcode3; breakpoints nav, click + button, choose exception breakpoint.

  16. Open Quickly in Xcode 4 is no longer restricted to simple prefix search. As an example, "nstv" now returns NSTabView as the first result.

  17. Mac OS X 10.6.7 is out today. If you use Xcode 4, upgrading yields improved performance and reliability.

  18. In reply to

    File > Source Control > Commit, or command-option-C ?

  19. Posted first! of soon to be many mobile development videos->XCode4 and GHunit howto setup tutorial, see http://bit.ly/gAulbS Let's TDD!

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