Comments on: You’re Doing It Wrong http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2007/10/25/youre-doing-it-wrong/ On Mac OS X programming Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:36:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: mr_noodle http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2007/10/25/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-7351 mr_noodle Mon, 29 Oct 2007 04:46:08 +0000 http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2007/10/25/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-7351 Thanks for reminding me of that one. As a developer of a pref pane, I learned about specifying System Preferences as an executable a bit later than I should have. I would always launch Sys Prefs separately and then attach to it. I sometimes still attach but it's nice to just click "Debug" and have it run properly. Thanks for reminding me of that one. As a developer of a pref pane, I learned about specifying System Preferences as an executable a bit later than I should have. I would always launch Sys Prefs separately and then attach to it. I sometimes still attach but it’s nice to just click “Debug” and have it run properly.

]]> By: Jordy/Jediknil http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2007/10/25/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-7283 Jordy/Jediknil Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:59:35 +0000 http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2007/10/25/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-7283 Not exactly embarassing, since it's not something most people would try, but my biggest aha! moment in Xcode was when I realized you could use Custom Executables to run /existing applications/...including a second copy of Xcode itself. Makes debugging plugins a heck of a lot easier. Not exactly embarassing, since it’s not something most people would try, but my biggest aha! moment in Xcode was when I realized you could use Custom Executables to run /existing applications/…including a second copy of Xcode itself. Makes debugging plugins a heck of a lot easier.

]]> By: ctshryock http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2007/10/25/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-7228 ctshryock Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:00:37 +0000 http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2007/10/25/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-7228 i didn't know about option-double click. i don't feel stupid, just smarter now :) i didn’t know about option-double click. i don’t feel stupid, just smarter now :)

]]> By: Andy Lee http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2007/10/25/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-7218 Andy Lee Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:57:23 +0000 http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2007/10/25/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-7218 That was it! Amazing that you remembered that. That was it! Amazing that you remembered that.

]]> By: Steve Peter http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2007/10/25/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-7216 Steve Peter Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:55:33 +0000 http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2007/10/25/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-7216 Andy, was it beginning a drag, then switching apps with Cmd-Tab, then dropping? I didn't know you could do that. Paul, the title of this post reminds me of this great poster of John McCarthy in the style of those motivational posters: http://xach.com/tmp/wip/motiv.html. Andy, was it beginning a drag, then switching apps with Cmd-Tab, then dropping? I didn’t know you could do that.

Paul, the title of this post reminds me of this great poster of John McCarthy in the style of those motivational posters: http://xach.com/tmp/wip/motiv.html.

]]> By: Andy Lee http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2007/10/25/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-7209 Andy Lee Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:03:35 +0000 http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2007/10/25/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-7209 Cathy did something else in that demo that I didn't know you could do. I guess my embarrassing discovery is that I don't remember what it was. Cathy did something else in that demo that I didn’t know you could do. I guess my embarrassing discovery is that I don’t remember what it was.

]]> By: mr_noodle http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2007/10/25/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-7204 mr_noodle Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:51:27 +0000 http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2007/10/25/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-7204 Blake: Yes, 'p' does work nicely in gdb though I still don't understand why I need to cast the return types on methods all the time. Hmm, maybe I'm about to make another embarrassing discovery... As for NSLog debugging, I have to use it when dealing with mouse loops and such where you can't just switch to another window and type stuff. Chris: I keep hearing about this embargo but I wonder if it's only applicable to journalists who signed a different NDA than the one we did? I don't recall the ADC NDAs having a date in them. In any case, thanks for the info. Blake: Yes, ‘p’ does work nicely in gdb though I still don’t understand why I need to cast the return types on methods all the time. Hmm, maybe I’m about to make another embarrassing discovery…

As for NSLog debugging, I have to use it when dealing with mouse loops and such where you can’t just switch to another window and type stuff.

Chris: I keep hearing about this embargo but I wonder if it’s only applicable to journalists who signed a different NDA than the one we did? I don’t recall the ADC NDAs having a date in them. In any case, thanks for the info.

]]> By: Chris Ryland http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2007/10/25/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-7201 Chris Ryland Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:26:43 +0000 http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2007/10/25/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-7201 Since the Leopard embargo is lifted as of today (at least that's what I read on some rumor site ;-), in IB3 I think it will auto-sense any changes you make to your header files when you switch back into it. No more d'n'd needed. Since the Leopard embargo is lifted as of today (at least that’s what I read on some rumor site ;-), in IB3 I think it will auto-sense any changes you make to your header files when you switch back into it. No more d’n'd needed.

]]> By: Blake Seely http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2007/10/25/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-7198 Blake Seely Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:59:13 +0000 http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2007/10/25/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-7198 ER, I guess I shouldn't have used angle brackets in that post :) What it should say is just type 'p (name of your nsrect var here)' and gdb will print the right thing ER, I guess I shouldn’t have used angle brackets in that post :) What it should say is just type ‘p (name of your nsrect var here)’ and gdb will print the right thing

]]> By: Blake Seely http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2007/10/25/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-7197 Blake Seely Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:53:49 +0000 http://www.noodlesoft.com/blog/2007/10/25/youre-doing-it-wrong/#comment-7197 For structures like NSSize and NSRect, you can also just type 'p ', and gdb will print out all the members for you. For structures like NSSize and NSRect, you can also just type ‘p ‘, and gdb will print out all the members for you.

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