Advice moving from Eclipse to xCode
- by Gloin the Dark
To xCode xPerts:
I have been doing Java in Eclipse for about 9 years now and I have really gotten used to the power of the refactoring tools. There are a few operations I do all the time. I am looking for equivalents in xCode since it has better support for objective-c than eclipse. (I'm not at my Mac as I write this. So some of this is from memory. I am still very new to xCode.)
1 "rename".
It seems that the xCode equivalent for variables is "edit all in scope". Does this work for files/classes/methods too?
2 "extract local variable"
select an expression it creates a local var initialized to that expression. It even creates a usable name for the variable.
3 "extract method"
select some code and it will create a method with that code and appropriate parameters/return value.
4 "inline" (variable or method)
opposite of extract, inlines all or just the selected occurrence of the selected var or method.
5 "find next"
occurrence of selected text. In eclipse I can select some text and hit ctrl-k to go to the next occurrence of that in the file. likewise shift-ctrl-k finds backwards. IIRC the xCode "find next" ignores the selection and only uses what is in the find box.
6 "change method signature"
This would be very useful with ocjective-c's named parameter messaging syntax. This is great for adding parameters to a method.
7 "pull-up/push-down"
for moving methods up or down the class hierarchy.
8 "move"
for moving elements around to other classes etc.
Those are the ones that I use all of the time. I have estimated that these tools cut my coding time in half. Are any of these supported in xCode?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
