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<\/a><\/p>\nNow this is one of my favorite tools in xCode. Off that bat it allows for conditional breaks. The above break for example will not break unless the\u00a0variable\u00a0newPos is equal to 42. This can help with keeping an eye on a value to make sure it does not act in\u00a0appropriately\u00a0and if\u00a0does\u00a0you will get the break. How ever clicking the actions text above marked with a blue arrow will\u00a0unleash\u00a0the true power behind the xCode breakpoint.<\/p>\n
Out of the 5 above options I only use two with any\u00a0frequency. \u00a0The “Debugger\u00a0Command” which will allow you to log, inject calls and set\u00a0variables. \u00a0The “Log Message” more for english messages and keeping track of the\u00a0frequency\u00a0of code used. \u00a0OH ya one more thing\u00a0“Log Message” supports text to speech.<\/p>\n Lets start with the “Debugger\u00a0Command”:<\/strong><\/p>\n “po someObject” looks like it would print the description of someObject. Thats not all though. Dont forget the conditional above it “newPos == 42”. Combine the two and you will only print someObject to the consol when\u00a0newPos is equal to 42. If you uncheck\u00a0the bottom\u00a0checkbox “Option” it will log the description with out breaking.<\/p>\n You can also use the\u00a0field\u00a0to more than log. Be careful \u00a0though as this can easily cause problems if you forget to remove or disable the break.<\/p>\n The command could be to call a function or set a\u00a0variable\u00a0like this: “newPos = 13”<\/p>\n If you were to forget to remove a command like that it could burn a lot of time\u00a0tracking\u00a0it down.<\/p>\n Moving onto the “Log Message”:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n This obviously prints a message. If you look under text\u00a0field\u00a0to the right you can see a key. Above I used the %H which will be replaced by the number of times the break has been hit. Also if you\u00a0remember\u00a0to uncheck the Option at the botton it wont break but will simply log at the break.<\/p>\n You also get the option to have the message read out loud. This is\u00a0useful\u00a0if you\u00a0have\u00a0to keep your attention on the app and cant keep an eye on the logs.<\/p>\n This covers the two basic\u00a0implementations. What if you need to do more than one thing like run\u00a0multiple\u00a0commands?<\/p>\n Stacking Actions:<\/strong><\/p>\n Pressing the + button as indicated above by the orange arrow. That would be the top arrow as the bottom one is yellow. (my color selection is\u00a0rubbish) You get\u00a0another\u00a0action that runs at the same time. \u00a0You can run any number of commands in the one break which can provide very rich loggin and\u00a0debugging\u00a0capabilities.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n