I've seen some build settings being used like
$(PRODUCT_NAME:identifier)
Using :upper also makes the setting value uppercase, but I don't know what those are called and can't find any documentation. Does anyone know their name or where the documentation is to use them properly?
The file /Developer/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DevToolsCore.framework/Versions/A/DevToolsCore has a bunch of these:
[ 09:22 root#MacBookPro / ]# strings /Developer/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DevToolsCore.framework/Versions/A/DevToolsCore | egrep "(^:|^[a-z0-9]+$)"
:children.count=%lu
:name='%#'
:File='%#':Line=%lu:RefType=%#
:fileRef=%#:timestamp=%lu
:char-range=%#
:line-range=%#
:<range-type-%lu>=%#
:name='%#'
:name=%#:path='%#'
:name='%#'
:name='%#':buildSettings(%lu)=%#
:path='%#'
:quote
:identifier
:rfc1034identifier
:dir
:abs
:remoteRef='%#'
:File='%#':Head Revision=%#:Active Branch=%#
:scmProprties='%#':sandboxEntry='%#'
.... SNIP ....
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Found this as well: DevToolsCore Framework Reference. Looks like an API for the Framework (- (id)initWithName:(id)arg1 productTypeIdentifier:(id)arg2).
Couldn't find any other documentation for it though, just this SO question (xcode-info-plist-build-variable-product-namerfc1034identifier-seems-complete).
Since they are not documented I don't think they have a name. When building Xcode 4 templates I found 3 variable modifiers in the Apple templates that seem to do the following:
identifier: ensures that it is a legal C variable name. It replaces illegal characters with underscores.
bundleIdentifier: ensures that it is a legal bundle identifier.
RFC1034Identifier: ensures that it is a legal domain name.
And thanks to you I know another one:
upper: change the value to uppercase.
The Xcode project templates are not documented. They are defined in plists with an inheritance system. Their elements have a defined structure and use several expansion macros with double underscore like __PACKAGENAME__ (also seen in Xcode 3) that are modified with one of the modifiers mentioned above.
If you want to dig further on this I recommend Documentation: Xcode 4 templates. Learning Apple's template system was painful and slow until I stumbled onto this PDF. It's $10/€7,50 but it's worthy. Writing templates remains very cumbersome, I guess Apple engineers use an internal tool or a great deal of patience.
The build settings are called "build settings" and they are documented in the Xcode Build Setting Reference. The Product Name defaults to your target name, but you can make up your own value if you like. These settings are referenced when writing scripts. Usually you don't need to touch anything while using XCode.
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I wanted to know what $. refers to in Google deployment manager templates
Reference 1
Reference 2
What are the set of functions that be used along with $. ?
It looks like a way to dynamically put in values based on certain conditions, but there's no documentation on this particular syntax. I can see the "$." in jinja configuration and MongoDB's documentation also shows the same concept; just that in Deployment Manager, it's $.ifNull ...
There are other set of functions that are used such as: $.resource, $.concat, etc. But again, we don't have a documented reference for the list.
I have some code which has worked in multiple installations for about a year. Today im doing a small change to a control and then another control seems to have developed an issue. When at runtime im getting a 91 error object variable or with block variable not set.
I therefore looked at the problem line which is: -
If Screen.ActiveForm.name = "frmFoutmelding" Then Exit Sub
so I noticed the name was lowercase. if i delete .name and rehit the "dot" then it shows me i can use .Name but as soon as i move from this line it drops back to .name
I've checked for instances of name and it appears everywhere in the code in different modules but i cant find if i have accidentally defined this lowercase name anywhere?
Googling doesn't seem to show much but i feel Im googling the wrong terms
chaps - thanks for your suggestions - this was the first instance of the lowercase name and searching as Jim suggested didn't reveal anything I'm afraid. What I did discover was that this was suddenly being run before any forms had actually been displayed and so the count was 0. I therefore, did an on error to check the form count and exit the sub if it =0 then if not to carry on with the line I thought I was having issues with.
It's likely that you did create a new variable or property called (lower case) name, or that some included reference did the same. It's possible to use reserved words as variable names in some cases, but it requires taking specific steps.
I would first search your code for instances of name As to see if you created a variable (this assumes you use Option Explicit, which is a must IMO). Then search for Property*name with * as a wildcard.
If those fail you could try unchecking references or components to see if any of them define name. If none of that finds anything, please post back here.
Jim Mack covers a lot of the potential issues. I think another is if you typed a lower case '.name' in association with Activeform at some point earlier in the same code module - the VB6 IDE checks in the current module and uses that to define what case to use. Look further up the same code module (sub or function).
Ultimately, check what changes you made by comparing the old source to the new in a file comparison tool like windiff - you do have backups, right?
I'm rather new to Objective C (I'm using Xcode, if it's relevant). I tried to find an answer to this, but couldn't find anywhere...
My question is: Is there a possible way to change a variable name in the Localizable.strings file, so that it would change in the entire app?
I do not want to use the "search and replace" option, since if there are more instances of that string which are not this variable's name, they would change too (which is something I'm interested to avoid).
Basically I'm interested in finding the parallel function to java's "refactor", while using eclipse. Thanks to all helpers!
No, not possible to do it automatically. At least not in XCode - maybe AppCode can offer something, but I doubt it. Localizable.strings is not code - it's a text file which contains key-value pairs. Thus there are no real references to keys in your code, just same string values in your code and in the file.
I'm trying to create a new input method using Input Method Kit. The documentation is very lacking, but I believe I'm setting the project up correctly and I place the input method into ~/Library/Input Methods after building it. However, I see strange behavior when looking at the list of input sources in Language & Text preferences.
The NumberInput sample seems to work fine for me, and there are no differences in my new input method that I can find, aside from the values for tsInputMethodIconFileKey, InputMethodConnectionName, InputMethodServerControllerClass, and CFBundleIdentifier in Info.plist. But I'm seeing these issues:
When I use my desired bundle identifier for the app, nothing shows up in the list. (This bundle ID doesn't exist anywhere else on my system.)
Changing the bundle identifier to be the same as the NumberInput sample makes it show up in the list, but when I select it, it sometimes duplicates entries in the list, and generally behaves weirdly.
As I make slight modifications to the bundle identifier, it seems to behave normally, but once I change it back to the original identifier (the desired one) it disappears from the list.
If I quit the process associated with my input method, selecting it in the menu again doesn't relaunch it.
Does anyone have any idea what's going on? Apple's documentation for IMKit is nearly nonexistant and it doesn't seem like many people have documented their own attempts at making input methods. Is there something I'm missing?
Thanks in advance!
P.S. Yes I've tried logging out and back in and even restarting my computer, nothing seems to significantly change the behavior I mentioned above.
This worked for me. Try this: make sure your bundle identifier contains "inputmethod" somewhere in the path. Example "com.blugs.inputmethod.IPAPalette". Yes AFAIK it's totally undocumented. Yes the documentation is awful. Hope this helps! Cheers.
The accepted answer here is very useful, adding .inputmethod. to your Bundle ID.
I'll add that I found a bit of documentation for this in TextInputSources.h, which contains a large number of comments and documentation not found in the Input Method Kit overview docs. Worth a read.
Carbon > Frameworks > HIToolbox > TextInputSources.h
In the Info.plist file, the value for the CFBundleIdentifier key must be a string that includes ".keyboardlayout."; typically this might be something like "com.companyname.keyboardlayout.MyKeyboardLayouts" (Before Leopard, it was required to be a string that began "com.apple.keyboardlayout", even for keyboard layouts not supplied by Apple).
and
If this key is not specified, an InputSourceID will be constructed by combining the BundleID with an InputModeID suffix formed by deleting any prefix that matches the BundleID or that ends in ".inputmethod."
I want to rename about 100 classes in my Xcode project. It would be painful to change every filename, then do a search and replace on the name of each class in question.
Is there a better way?
The change in question involves changing a prefix -- think of what Apple would need to do if they decided to rename all the classes in their "NS" framework to start with "MS". Unfortunately, the two caps in question do start some words in the project which are not among the class names in question.
If your version of Xcode is reasonably up-to-date, you can right-click on the symbol name in the editor and choose "Refactor..." which will take care of both renaming files and renaming symbols (with the appropriate checkbox enabled).
If you don't have C++, Shaggy's answer will probably work for you. But in my case, the answer appears to be that there is no better way.