Geeklawyer is a bit hacked off with Apple’s new Leop­ard OS — what with one thing and another. The thing is about as fuck­ing sta­ble as Princess Diana (hope­fully it won’t pro­duced as many retarded chil­dren). It really is suf­fer­ing from Sec­ond Son syn­drome: iPhone has the looks intel­li­gence charm and press cov­er­age — poor dowdy lit­tle Leop­ard is left at home hav­ing sup­per with a senile aunt. While Leop­ard gets all the devel­op­ers PR and pub­lic­ity, Leop­ard get the hand-me downs.

Geeklawyer was using Xmas and Box­ing Day as an excuse to learn to do a bit of hack­ing on OSx using Xcode 3. Hav­ing installed it and begun look­ing at all the online hack­ing exam­ples he hoped to knock out some code quick. But things didn’t go to plan. In Xcode 2 if you open up a nib file and try to drag a header file into the nib file win­dow. e.g.:

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This should, accord­ing to the Xccode 2 tuto­ri­als — AND the Xcode 3 tuto­ri­als throw up a dia­logue like this:

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But of course it doesn’t. No nib inspec­tor with tab for the classes, no. Instead one has to drag in a new NSob­ject from the library, rename it and then start to play. Mer­ci­fully Matthew Long explained this. It’d be nicer if Apple had both­ered but Geeklawyer guesses it was too busy count­ing iPhone receipts and shut­ting down inde­pen­dent news sites. Twats.

Of course it may be in the Xcode 3 docs but if it is it’s hid­ing bet­ter than Sad­dam in a hole.