Using what version of XCode? I've found that in XCode 3.1 its been
pretty darn excellent and the few times it wasn't, I was able to just
do a Print Description from the data formatter into the console (just
a shortcut to "po <var name>".
Honestly I found that most of my biggest gripes I had in XCode 2 or
even 3.0 are fixed in 3.1. 3.1 is not perfect and does still screw up
every so often, but as a guy who has spent many many hours in Visual
Studio 2005/2008 I can say that 3.1 has been a real joy to use with
what I feel are fewer bugs and better developer-focused usability.
Also I get the impression from reading a lot of complaints that many
of those are fixed in 3.1 and that people simply haven't upgrading
because they can't (lots of legit reasons) and/or because they don't
see a .1 release being that big of a deal.
Of course, I use 3.1 in 3.1 native projects and my type of work may
simply not show the issues you see. But I know I've enumerated
NSMutableArray or NSArray objects many times in 3.1 without any issues
at all using the visual introspection.
On Aug 3, 2008, at 10:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 16:09:12 -0600
From: Nick Zitzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to get the value of a NSNumber contained in an array
while debugging ?
To: MAGDELENAT Philippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com
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On Aug 3, 2008, at 1:39 PM, MAGDELENAT Philippe wrote:
Yep found that but I want so see the value of my NSNumber in the GUI
debgger (in XCode). I want to see my array (it shows something like
10 objects for the summary) and then, if I open the array I want the
summary to work for each of the NSNumber inside. Bellow you can see
that aNumber is well shown but that the same formatter isn't working
inside the array...
Data formatters have been notoriously unreliable since Xcode 1.0 or
so. I usually turn them off, since they don't always work (as you've
noticed), and they sometimes screw up debugging sessions, leading to a
timeout, in which case the only remedy is to pull the plug and start
again from the top.
If you need to inquire about the state of objects, the best way to do
it is manually, as long as you know that the object has been
allocated.
Nick Zitzmann
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