XCode Macros for iPhone

Question

Anybody have any good pointers on how to be able to, say, highlight a ivar in a class and hit a keystroke and insert the property and synthesize lines into my code in the proper places? I have been doing this for awhile now and typing that boilerplate stuff is getting on my nerves at times.

Answer 1

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1151393/xcode-script-for-generating-synthesizing-properties

This seems to be what you're looking for.

Answer 2

I banged out a couple of quick and dirty scripts in Ruby for this. They just operate on the selection and put the results on the clipboard.

Property declerations:

#! /usr/bin/env ruby -w

r=/^\s*(.*;)/
inputLines=STDIN.read
inputLines.each do |l|
  l.strip!
  m=l.match(r)
  if m   
    if m[0].index("*") 
        puts "@property(nonatomic, retain)  " + m[0]
    elsif m[0].index(/^\s*id\s/ )
        puts "@property(nonatomic, retain)  " + m[0]
    else
        puts "@property " + m[0]
    end
  end
end

This turns... NSString *aString;

...into:

@property(nonatomic, retain)  NSString *aString;

This script turns the iVar to a @synthesize:

#! /usr/bin/env ruby -w

r=/\s*\w+\s+\**(\w+\s*);/
s=STDIN.read
s.each_line() do |l|
  l.strip!
  m=l.match(r)
  if m
    puts "@synthesize " +m.captures[0]+";"
  end
end

Scripts to do this all in one go require Applescript which gives me a rash. I stick by KISS.