Question

First, I have xcode 3.4.3 installed on my hackintosh(10.6.5). When I started using xcode , I follow apple’s steps from “Your First Mac App” tutorial. When I walked through creating actions for controls, it ask me to use the assistant editor to create connections between control and logic code, but I can’t find anything called assistant editor is this because I am using xcode 3.4.3?

Could somebody please tell me some alternatives.

Answer 1

//edit: The assistant editor seems only present at xcode 4 and higher, so the tutorial you are using is newer than you current xcode version. Thanks @popeye for the hint.

The alternative is simply add the connections by yourself. You have to add the outlets in the interface-file (h-file) and the implemenations in the implementation-file (m-file).

There is a good tutorial video fromon how to achieve this:
Xcode 3 Recipes – Connecting an Outlet

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The mentioned “assistant editor” is just a neat way to connect your outlets with your code. It connects the GUI with the code. For example if you have a button on your screen and you want to register a touch event on that than you can simply use the assistent editor to do that.

It is on the upper right corner of xcode. See the screenshot:

It shows you a split view with the code on one side and the Storyboard on the other. If you have that view open you can simply hold the control-key and drag a connection from the gui element to the code.

From the apple website: Assistant (): presents a separate editor pane with content logically related to that in the standard editor pane. Use the split controls in the Assistant pane to split the pane. Use View > Assistant Layout to set your preferred assistant pane and split configuration.
Apple iOS Developer Library – xCode Basics