Chapter 24. Xcode 4 for Xcode 3 Veterans

In This Chapter

• Understanding the desktop versus the browser

• Using the Editor

• Understanding build actions

• Finding where everything went

Depending on your experience and your cognitive style, Xcode 4 comes to you as a liberation, a disappointment, or even an outrage. My own reaction was severely negative, but I’ve come to respect Xcode 4, and even to like it. Mostly. This chapter, acknowledging your losses, will show you how to live with Xcode 4, and even to like it. Mostly.

The Desktop and the Browser

A key impetus in rewriting Xcode was that Xcode 3 had become a swarm of windows, some with duplicative content (such as the editors in the Debugger, Project Search, and Build Results windows) and ...

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