Question

I’ve just started iPhone development and I find the workflow to be completely disrupted by the number of windows that opens everywhere.

I read in several places that I could put XCode in a All-In-One mode by closing all projects and then going to Preferences|General|Layout.

So I did and I saw no improvement what so ever !

Clicking on files still opens a new window for each one(unless I group them), clicking on a .xib file still opens it on no less than three Interface builder windows.

I’ve tried closing completely xcode, double checking the selected layout, creating a new project in case this setting is project dependent, but to no avail.

I’m beginning to think this layout thing doesn’t do what I assume it should.

Any insight would be very welcome.

EDIT : Version 3.2.5

EDIT 2 : Maybe I’m not understanding what this is supposed to do : I thought that when I’d double click on a file(.m,.h.xib) in the project manager it would open the file in the same window. For me it keeps opening new windows for each file. Is that normal behavior in All-In-One mode ?

EDIT 3: Ok, last bump before I close this question as a “Nobody has a clue question” 😀

Answer 1

Click on the file you want to edit only once, not twice. Even in Xcode 4, double-clicking on a file in the files and groups list will open the file in a new window, and Xcode 4 is much more “all in one” than Xcode 3.