iPad Application Development For Dummies, 3rd Edition

Setting Your Xcode Preferences

Xcode gives you options galore. I’m guessing that you won’t change any of them until you have a bit more programming experience under your belt, but a few options are actually worth thinking about now — so in this section, I show you how to set some of the preferences you might be interested in.

Follow these steps to set some of the preferences you’ll find useful.

1. With Xcode open, choose Xcode⇒Preferences from the main menu.

2. Click the Behaviors tab at the top of the Preferences window to show the Behaviors pane.

The Xcode Preferences window refreshes to show the Behaviors pane.

The right side of the pane shows the Events pane (the checkmarks indicate events for which settings are set), while the left side shows the possible actions for an event.

3. Select Run Generates Output in the left column and then choose the Show, Hide, or If No Output Hide option from the Debug area pop-up menu to the left of the debugger in the right pane.

This step controls what appears while you run your app. By default, you’ll find that the check box for showing the debugger in the Debug area is selected. (See Chapter 9 for more about debugging.)

4. Select other options from the left column (perhaps Build Starts, Build Generates New Issues, Build Succeeds, and Build Fails) and experiment with the options available.

You can link an event with playing a sound (something I like to do) or have an event trigger the Xcode icon bouncing up and down in the Dock. ...