I'm working in XCode and I've also written an external editor tool that generates resources for use in the project. In the best case scenario, the tool would edit the project.pbxproj file so that it includes the generated resources in the project. I've read through the file in an attempt to understand it, and it's mostly discernible but there is still one major question I have.
If I wanted to generate a new Group from outside XCode (or a new anything, for that matter), how do I know what ID code to use? For example: 19C28FACFE9D520D11CA2CBB is one of them from my project. How am I supposed to know what to use if I make my own? Do they just need to be unique? Would it be legal to just make one up: 000000000000000000000001 and 000000000000000000000002 and 000000000000000000000003 etc. ?
Any help on this would be wonderful. Thanks.
Yes, you can make your own. The best way would be to use a hash function such as MD5 or SHA1 to generate it then you can truncate it at the desired length. I would hash the name of the file/group along with a time stamp appended this way you get a more unique result.
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I have a situation that I had to sync my array with language files, so every time I had to generate & translate it.
I was looking for a package like laravel-langman it has an option to sync. But now that I am looking, it doesn't allow me to create a key with the value using artisan commend directly without asking for input.
Any Help will be appreciated.
You should check out this page maybe, it mentions multiple packages that solve your problem. We currently use a combination of 2 packages. I think the first one has what you want.
We use 2 packages to solve this issue, one is for the basic translations that don't get added dynamically, for this we used: waavi/translation
Now you still need it working for dynamically created or removed translations which you need if you want your models to contain multi language descriptions or something similar. For this we used: dimsav/laravel-translatable
With both of those you are all set, but you can also see if you like another package over the ones i listed.
I use Poedit in a project for localization. Whenever I change an entry with poedit, it reorders all elements. I think it reorders the elements according to their line number and file but since I´m working with many coders on this project, poedit must not reorder all elements to avoid unneccessary line changes in the repository. Does anyone know how to achieve that?
Poedit never, under any circumstances, reorders content of the file when you “change an entry”. Files are always saved in the order they had when loaded, and it’s been like this since the very first version.
I have two explanations:
Either you’re confusing content of the file with the view presented in Poedit (where you can select your preferred display order in the View menu), in which case just change the display to whatever you like. But this seems unlikely.
Or you’re talking about not “changing an entry” in the file, but updating the PO file from source code. If that’s the case, it’s possible that you or some of your coworkers are using some very old version of Poedit. The fix would be to update to the current version, because the scan order was fixed to be stable across platforms in v1.6.5 1.3 years ago.
If it’s neither, you need to describe the issue reproducibly.
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 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.
Sadly, a project that I have been working on lately has a large amount of copy-and-paste code, even within single files. Are there any tools or techniques that can detect duplication or near-duplication within a single file? I have Beyond Compare 3 and it works well for comparing separate files, but I am at a loss for comparing single files.
Thanks in advance.
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Thanks for all the great tools! I'll definitely check them out.
This project is an ASP.NET/C# project, but I work with a variety of languages including Java; I'm interested in what tools are best (for any language) to remove duplication.
Check out Atomiq. It finds code that is duplicate that is prime for extracting to one location.
http://www.getatomiq.com/
If you're using Eclipse, you can use the copy paste detector (CPD) https://olex.openlogic.com/packages/cpd.
You don't say what language you are using, which is going to affect what tools you can use.
For Python there is CloneDigger. It also supports Java but I have not tried that. It can find code duplication both with a single file and between files, and gives you the result as a diff-like report in HTML.
See SD CloneDR, a tool for detecting copy-paste-edit code within and across multiple files. It detects exact copyies, copies that have been reformatted, and near-miss copies with different identifiers, literals, and even different seqeunces of statements.
The CloneDR handles many languages, including Java (1.4,1.5,1.6) and C# especially up to C#4.0. You can see sample clone detection reports at the website, also including one for C#.
Resharper does this automagically - it suggests when it thinks code should be extracted into a method, and will do the extraction for you
Check out PMD , once you have configured it (which is tad simple) you can run its copy paste detector to find duplicate code.
One with some Office skills can do following sequence in 1 minute:
use ordinary formatter to unify the code style, preferably without line wrapping
feed the code text into Microsoft Excel as a single column
search and replace all dual spaces with single one and do other replacements
sort column
At this point the keywords for duplicates will be already well detected. But to go further
add comparator formula to 2nd column and counter to 3rd
copy and paste values again, sort and see the most repetitive lines
There is an analysis tool, called Simian, which I haven't yet tried. Supposedly it can be run on any kind of text and point out duplicated items. It can be used via a command line interface.
Another option similar to those above, but with a different tool chain: https://www.npmjs.com/package/jscpd