Question

When adding new properties to classes, I find myself typing the same things over and over in xcode:

1. add TYPE *NAME; (in .h interface)
2. add @property (nonatomic, retain) TYPE *NAME; (in .h)
3. add @synthesize NAME; (in .m)
4. add [NAME release]; (in .m dealloc)

(I’m in a non-garbage collected environment.)

How can I do this automatically?

Answer 1

That sounds about right. IIRC, the Objective-C 2.0 doc says you might be able to leave out step #1, but otherwise I don’t know of any shortcuts.

You could probably write a user script to do so within Xcode. See http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.23/23.01/2301XCode/index.html.