User interface

Editor

Focus: ⎋

Use the editor to read, write, and explore your source code .

Action indicators and action list

Open action list: ⌥ ⏎

Various icons that appear in the gutter, for example, , help you notice quick-fixes and other actions. Clicking such action indicator or pressing ⌥ ⏎ opens an action list with all quick-fixes and other actions that are available at the current caret position.

Navigation bar

Focus: ⌥ ↖

Show/hide: View | Appearance | Navigation Bar

The navigation bar at the top is a quick alternative to the Project view, where you can navigate the structure of your project and open files for editing.

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If VCS integration is enabled, items in the navigation bar are highlighted according to VCS file status colors.

Use the buttons to the right of the navigation bar to run and debug your application, and perform basic version control operations (if the version control integration is configured). It also contains buttons to Run Anything (press Ctrl twice) and Search Everywhere (press Shift twice).

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The main toolbar with buttons for opening and saving files, undo and redo actions is hidden by default. To show it, select View | Appearance | Toolbar.

Status bar

Show/hide: View | Appearance | Status Bar

The left part of the status bar at the bottom of the main window shows the most recent event messages and descriptions of actions when you hover over them with the mouse pointer. Click a message in the status bar to open it in the Notifications tool window. Right-click the message in the status bar and select Copy to paste the message text when you are searching for a solution to a problem or need to add it to a support ticket or to the AppCode issue tracker.

Use the quick access button or to switch between tool windows and hide the tool window bars.

The status bar also shows the progress of background tasks. You can click to show the Background Tasks manager.

The right part of the status bar contains widgets that indicate the overall project and IDE status and provide access to various settings. Depending on the set of plugins and configuration settings, the set of widgets can change. Right-click the status bar to select the widgets that you want to show or hide.

Tool windows

Show/hide: View | Tool Windows

Tool windows provide functionality that supplements editing code. For example, the Project tool window shows you the structure of your project, and the Run tool window displays the output of your application when you run it.

By default, tool windows are docked to the sides and bottom of the main window. You can arrange them as necessary, undock, resize, hide, and so on. Right-click the title of the tool window or click in the title for its arrangement options.

You can assign shortcuts to quickly access the tool windows that you frequently use. Some of them have shortcuts by default. For example, to open the Project tool window, press ⌥ 1, and to open the Terminal tool window, press ⌥ F12. To jump from the editor to the last active tool window, press F12.

Context menus

You can right-click various elements of the interface to see the actions available in the current context. For example, right-click a file in the Project tool window for actions related to that file, or right-click in the editor to see actions that apply to the current code fragment.

Most of these actions can also be performed from the main menu at the top of the screen or the main window. Actions with shortcuts show the shortcut next to the action name.

Popup menus

Popup menus provide quick access for actions related to the current context. Here are some useful popup menus and their shortcuts:

• ⌘ N opens the Generate popup for generating boilerplate code based on the context.

• ⌃ ⌥ ⇧ T opens the Refactor This popup with a list of contextually available refactorings.

• ⌘ N in the Project tool window opens the New popup for adding new files and directories to your project.

• ⌥ ` opens the VCS Operations popup with contextually available actions for your version control system.

You can create custom popup menus using quick lists of actions that you often use.

Main window

The main window lets you work with a single AppCode project. You can open multiple projects in multiple windows . By default, the window header displays the name of the project and the name of the currently open file. If there are multiple modules, it will also show the name of the relevant module.

To show the full path to the project and to the current file, select Always show full paths in window header on the Appearance & Behavior | Appearance page of the IDE settings ⌃ ⌥ S.