Maybe I'm just me that don't grasp the meaning of a simple thing, but I really can not understand the meaning of the round icon that is next to the search field of the panel objects of Interface Builder of Xcode. Someone would know help me?
That is the filter icon for Xcode, used to filter a list that is already showing.
In each filter field that's available you don't have to enter the beginning of the name to get a match. The most powerful of all the filters is the Quick Find feature (shown at the bottom), which doesn't even require the characters to be adjacent, for a match to be successful.
Did you know that you can also filter method names that appear at the top of your Editor?
Tap on the popup button:
Start typing to filter the list. As you can see, the entered characters don't have to be adjacent to produce matched results:
Contrast that to the search icon, visible at the top of the Find navigator panel:
There is also a filter field at the bottom of the Find navigator, to enable filtering through search results. I think it is supposed to resemble a half-filled magnifying glass, but it is missing the handle:
A filter field is also at the bottom of the Project navigator:
And, let's not forget about the filter field at the bottom of each of the library panels (Template library, Code Snippet library, Object library, and Media library). That really comes in handy, especially with all the UI components available on Mac OS:
But if you have a lot of files in your project, then I recommend using Quick Find (Shft-Cmd-O). You can type any letters for what you're looking for, and it digs up results of several types of objects, including file names and method names. It performs a powerful regex-style search that doesn't require the entered characters to be adjacent in the matched results. Notice that there is no filter icon here, because a list is not displayed before you begin filtering:
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If notes (as opposed to simple category phrases) are written in the Comments field of macOS folders, is there a way using Automator (or whatever) to simply hover over the folder and see the contents of that field as a tooltip?
I don't believe it's possible to create such a hover effect.
However, you can just show the comments continuously:
View -> as List
View -> Show View Options
Show Columns: Comments (and maybe Tags?)
Or right click on the column headers to quickly change the columns being shown.
The advantage here (besides being possible) is that you do not have to wait for the tooltip to appear. Apologies, however, if this doesn't fit the workflow you had in mind.
I start with a working example:
Open PowerPoint with a blank presentation.
Right-click the title slide and choose "Layout - Title and Content".
You see "• Click to add text"? Click and add some text.
Right-click the slide again and choose "Layout - Two Content".
See how smart PowerPoint can be?
The text you entered in the single placeholder before is now in one the of two placeholders.
Specifically, the left one.
My questions:
Why? (And not in an extra one?)
Why? (And not in the right one?)
My questions arises because I have received a set of master slides in which the above is not working, and I am trying to repair it without having to regenerate everything.
This is a site for programming issues, but the background behind this issue might be sufficiently complex. Modern PowerPoint files are XML. In the XML for each slide layout, each placeholder has an idx reference number. PowerPoint uses these on numbers to decide where to place content.
Lazy Designer Syndrome is the cause of what you're seeing. Instead of creating new placeholders in order, so the idx numbers would increment in a logical order, the designer has copied and pasted placeholders to avoid extra formatting work. The pasted placeholders all have the same idx number. As a result, PowerPoint has no idea of placeholder order and inserts content randomly.
This isn't always easy to solve without editing the XML, but you can try deleting all but the leftmost placeholder. Then create new placeholders by inserting them one at a time and reformatting them manually to match the first.
At first my attempts to follow the above failed, but now I got it working as well.
There are two different, but similar tags, id="" and idx="".
All objects in the slide has an id="" tag, this is not the tag to solve this problem.
The idx="" tag is only on Placeholder objects, except the those of Type=Title.
As described above you can set it to an integer value 1 and greater (I assume).
Make a plan for what Placeholder objects should be replaced across your layouts. I think of these as "groups" or "families", then assign the idx-values consistently throughout your slide layouts.
These "groups" or "families" of placeholders needs to be compatible for this to work, i.e. matching Type. The absence of Type means the placeholder is a general Content Type and match all Types.
During layout change, if Placeholders has incompatible Type while having the same idx-tag, PPT will look for the next Placeholder with matching Type.
#JohnKorchok's accepted answer provides the technical details for the procedure described here. Note that I only had "Content Placeholders" in my presentation.
Install 7-Zip and your favorite text editor (you can use one with an XML formatter, which will simplify things, but it's not required).
Open your file.pptx in 7-Zip (no need to rename to .zip, just right-click and "Open Archive")
Navigate to ppt/slideLayouts.
See a list of slideLayout....xml files.
Identify the ones you want to edit, e.g., by opening each one and looking for <p:cSld name. (The numbers may be indicative only of the order the layouts have been created, not of the order in which they are now shown in PowerPoint - although saving a .pptx files in PowerPoint 2016 does modify the slide layouts for me so that the display order matches the file name numbers.)
Look for <p:ph until you find the ones you want to edit. You probably want to ignore the ones with type="title", type="ftr", type="sldNum".
Change the idx of all other placeholders to 1, 2, ... in the order in which you want them filled (use the <p:cNvPr ... name= to identify the placeholders).
Save the .xml files, close your editor, and be asked by 7-Zip to update the archive. Answer "Yes".
So I set the idx to 1 for the one placeholder in my 1-content layout, to 1 for the left placeholder in my 2-content layout, and to 2 for the right placeholder in my 2-content layout.
When I do a multiple selection from, say, the find dialog (Alt-Enter), I sometimes find that many of the selected bits are off screen, but I'd like to check the context of all of them before I start doing a multiple edit.
Is there a way to, say, cycle through them in the view (without disrupting the selections)?
Probably the easiest way is to not do a "Find All", but instead highlight (or do a single Find) what you're looking for, then use ⌘D on OS X/CtrlD on Win/Lin to sequentially add the next matches. If you come to a match you don't want to select, just use ⌘K,⌘D (or CtrlK,CtrlD) to skip the current instance and go on to the next one. ⌘U (CtrlU) is "soft undo", it moves back to the previous selection in case you made a mistake.
Alternatively, I use a color scheme with a very bright selection color (it's bright blue surrounded by bright green) so that selected regions are very easy to identify. This way I can just glance at the minimap and see where selections are, and scroll through my file quickly to ensure everything looks good. If you find a selection you don't want, you can deselect it with Alt+middle mouse button on Win/Lin, or by ⌘Shift+click on OS X. You may need to set "drag_text": false in your Preferences for it to work, though (I'm not on my Mac at the moment to test).
I've found a working solution, but it's not ideal and only works if you're ok with losing the selections (eg: with multiple selections, hit Right Arrow - you've still got multiple cursors, but the selections are gone).
It goes like this:
Make sure there is no code folding - it appears to interfere with this sort of manipulation of multiple selections.
Use altEnter in the search dialogue to select all occurrences of your regex.
Scroll through the selections until you find one you don't want (MattDMo's Neon plugin is helpful here).
Use a cursor movement to lose the selections (multiple cursors remain).
Use Alt+Left Click on the undesired cursor.
Repeat 5. as required. Making another (multiple) selection can be helpful here to locate the other cursors (eg: Control/CommandShiftLeft Arrow)
If you remove a cursor by mistake, or need to add one, use Control/Command+Left Click
I have objects with similar names and when searching the project in xcode for e.g. currentTrack, objects with a name e.g. currentTrackList also appear in the search finder.
Is there a way to exclude strings or pick out e.g. only currentTrack and ignoring currentTrackList from search query?
I have heard about Code Pilot but never used it. Can code pilot do this?
If you look at the drop down in the search tab (next to the search icon there is a downwards arrow in the search field), there is an option called show find options, in that there is a section called Hits Must:
Change that to match search term
By default its on contain search term
Often, when I am reading code or debugging, I want the ability to quickly jump around files. I especially want to "go back" to where I was. I know about "Command+T", "Command+Shift+T", and, bookmarks. But, I cannot figure out a way to jump around files quickly.
UPDATE: I do not think I my question was clear enough judging by two answers given. Specifically, I am looking for a way to "jump back" to where I was in a file. I know how to navigate in TextMate (in general). I want to know if TextMate has a "jump back" key binding.
It's subtle.
The command-T thing has the files listed in Most Recently Used order.
So, you can go command-T return to get back to your last file real quick. At first I couldn't find it either.
I don't think there's a go to last edit location as there is in, say, IDEA/RubyMine.
Courtesy of MacroMates.com
2.3 Moving Between Files (With Grace)
When working with projects there are a few ways to move between the open files.
The most straightforward way is by clicking on the file tab you need. This can also be done from the keyboard by pressing ⌘1-9, which will switch to file tab 1-9.
You can also use ⌥⌘← and ⌥⌘→ to select the file tab to the left or right of the current one.
It is possible to re-arrange the file tabs by using the mouse to drag-sort them (click and hold the mouse button on a tab and then drag it to the new location). This should make it possible to arrange them so that keyboard switching is more natural.
One more key is ⌥⌘↑ which cycles through text files with the same base name as the current file. This is mainly useful when working with languages which have an interface file (header) and implementation file (source).
When you want to move to a file which is not open you can use the Go to File… action in the Navigation menu (bound to ⌘T). This opens a window like the one shown below.
Go To File
This window lists all text files in the project sorted by last use, which means pressing return will open (or go to) the last file you worked on. So using it this way makes for easy switching to the most recently used file.
You can enter a filter string to narrow down the number of files shown. This filter string is matched against the filenames as an abbreviation and the files are sorted according to how well they match the given abbreviation. For example in the picture above the filter string is otv and TextMate determines that OakTextView.h is the best match for that (by placing it at the top).
The file I want is OakTextView.mm which ranks as #2. But since I have already corrected it in the past, TextMate has learned that this is the match that should go together with the otv filter string, i.e. it is adaptive and learns from your usage patterns.
If you have a project window open, you can leave frequently-accessed files open (in tabs), and then use ⌘+1-9 to jump to open tabs.