Xcode intellisense meaning of letters in colored boxes like f,T,C,M,P,C,K,# etc
Recently, I have started using Xcode 4 for developing iOS apps.
In Xcode intellisense's autocomplete box, there are some letters in colored boxes before every suggestion. I know that they represent the property of the word we are typing like f,T,C,M,P,C,K,# etc.
Is there some kind of glossary available to find their quick meanings?
Meanings of f,C,T,# are understandable (function, class etc) but there are many others which I dont know. I assume these letters are standard across all IDEs like Visual Studio, Netbeans etc. Correct me if I am wrong.
Please suggest.
In Xcode this is called "Code Sense". And these icons also exist in Xcode 3. These icons are also used in symbol navigation.
Red: macros
-
= macro (think
#define
)
Brown: Core Data / namespace
- = modeled class
- = modeled method
= modeled property
= C++ namespace
Orange: aliased types
- = Objective-C category
- = enum
- = typedef / typealias
- = Swift extension
Green: variables
- = binding
- = function
- = field
- = constant
- = local variable
- = IBOutlet
- = variable (can be ivar, global var, local var, etc.)
- = parameter (think f(x))
Blue: methods
- = IBAction
- = method
- = property
Purple: aggregate types
- = class (Objective-C, Swift or C++)
- = class extension
- = Objective-C/Swift protocol
- = struct
- = union
Gray: snippets
- = snippets
Icons: #pragma mark
or comments
-
=
!!!: ...
-
=
FIXME: ...
-
=
???: ...
-
=
TODO: ...
-
=
MARK: ...
You should be able to look up the meanings from the filenames from /Developer/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DVTFoundation.framework/Resources/Xcode.SourceCodeSymbolKind.*.Icon.tiff
*.
In later versions of Xcode, the path is moved to /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/SharedFrameworks/DVTFoundation.framework/Resources/Assets.car
, see Analysing Assets.car file in IOS on how to extract the images from the *.car