What are some good Xcode scripts to speed up development?

Question

Xcode allows you to create automated scripts for performing repetitive tasks. What scripts have you written to speed up development?

Answer 1

Here's one to log a method and its arguments any time it's executed (Select the method definition up through the lie with the opening brace and execute the script). If FIXME shows up in the output it means it's an unrecognized type. You can either add it to the script or choose the proper format specifier manually.

#!/usr/bin/python

# LogMethod
# Selection
# Selection
# Insert after Selection
# Display in Alert

import sys
import re

input = sys.stdin.read()

methodPieces = re.findall("""(\w*:)""", input)
vars = re.findall(""":\(([^)]*)\)[ ]?(\w*)""", input)

outputStrings = ["\n  NSLog(@\""]

# Method taking no parameters
if not methodPieces:
    outputStrings.append(re.findall("""(\w*)[ ]?{""", input)[0])

for (methodPiece, var) in zip(methodPieces, vars):
    type = var[0]
    outputStrings.append(methodPiece)
    if "**" in type:
        outputStrings.append("%p")
    elif "*" in type:
        if "char" in type:
            outputStrings.append("%c")
        else:
            outputStrings.append("%@")
    else:
        if "int" in type or "NSInteger" in type or "BOOL" in type:
            outputStrings.append("%i")
        elif "NSUInteger" in type:
            outputStrings.append("%u")
        elif "id" in type:
            outputStrings.append("%@")
        elif "NSTimeInterval" in type:
            outputStrings.append("%f")
        elif "SEL" in type:
            outputString.append("%s")
        else:
            outputStrings.append('"FIXME"')
    if not methodPiece == methodPieces[-1]:
        outputStrings.append('\\n"\n         @"')

outputStrings.append("\"")

for var in vars:
    name = var[1]
    outputStrings.append(",\n         ")
    outputStrings.append(name)

outputStrings.append(");")

print "".join(outputStrings),