{"id":4748,"date":"2012-04-30T17:29:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T21:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4748"},"modified":"2018-04-26T16:47:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T20:47:47","slug":"how-to-make-xcodes-ui-work-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/30\/how-to-make-xcodes-ui-work-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Xcode&rsquo;s UI Work for You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brian-webster.tumblr.com\/post\/22060296528\/how-to-make-xcode-4s-ui-work-for-you-maybe\">Brian Webster<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/brian-webster.tumblr.com\/post\/22060296528\/how-to-make-xcode-4s-ui-work-for-you-maybe\"><p>Now, with most applications that support a tabbed interface, each tab is typically used to hold a single document, so that you can switch easily between them. I tried this with Xcode 4, but quickly found that the set of files I&#8217;m working with at any given time is usually too large for tabs to really be an effective way of managing them. The number of tabs would quickly grow to where I couldn&#8217;t find anything, and didn&#8217;t end up saving me any time. The key realization I had was that, rather than having one tab per <em>file<\/em>, I should instead have one tab for each <em>type of task<\/em>, such as editing, building, debugging, and so forth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I liked certain aspects of Xcode 3&rsquo;s user interface better, and there are some surprising omissions, but overall I don&rsquo;t have a problem with the changes in Xcode 4. In many ways, it&rsquo;s an improvement. Rather, the problem with Xcode 4 is that it&rsquo;s been shipping as a non-beta version for over a year now, and yet it still has the reliability of beta software. Aside from later versions of Xcode 3, Xcode was pretty much always more crashy and error-prone than Apple&rsquo;s non-developer apps. So was Project Builder. (The older ProjectBuilder, sans space, seemed solid to me, and it had some nice features that <em>still<\/em> haven&rsquo;t made it into Xcode.) And on the classic Mac OS, Metrowerks CodeWarrior suffered from similar problems at times. (As I recall, THINK C was stable, but I didn&rsquo;t do much Mac development in those days.)<\/p>\n<p>Developers are people, too. If the quality isn&rsquo;t good enough for iTunes or Safari, it shouldn&rsquo;t be acceptable for the tools used to developer those applications. Or, for that matter, the third-party applications that we rely on.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Webster: Now, with most applications that support a tabbed interface, each tab is typically used to hold a single document, so that you can switch easily between them. I tried this with Xcode 4, but quickly found that the set of files I&#8217;m working with at any given time is usually too large for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-04-26T20:47:49Z","apple_news_api_id":"8740a182-c804-4fd4-aedc-a7892ddb0f1b","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-04-26T20:47:52Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ah0ChgsgET9Su3KeJLdsPGw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[30,71,226],"class_list":["post-4748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-mac","tag-programming","tag-xcode"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4750,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748\/revisions\/4750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}