XCode for Visual Studio Users

Here’s another older article that I reckon I should just get out of the queue. As a pretty hardcore Visual Studio user, my initial experience with XCode was awful. After using it for a while, XCode isn’t so bad. I still prefer VS as it’s more mature, but here are things that I had problems with and fixed:

Problem: It opened more windows than I can keep track of. Answer: Turn on the three pane mode. **Problem:**I was unable to figure out the auto-complete keyboard code! I asked two or three different Mac people, and no-one understood the circle icon which was supposed to be the keyboard shortcut. **Answer:**It’s the Escape key! So much for being intuitive!

Random neat things about XCode!

• Ctrl-Apple up will toggle between the header and source file. This is something I’ve always wanted in VS (I know there are macros to do it). Delphi IDE’s was really good about jumping between the implementation and interface of a class.

Not so neat things:

• I haven’t used the debugger to much, but it doesn’t seem to let you right-click on a file global and add a watch. You must go through the global variable tree. It always loses these watches between invocations which is annoying.