Xcode Intellisense data type icons

[tysun]

Hi Alexandre,

I saw your blog and this SO post and was wondering if it would be possible to explore the Xcode data types with your tool. Is it possible to dump both the icons and definitions?

Also, for future versions of Xcode where the location might change, how could we make it extensible?

Cheers

[Timac]

Hi @tysun ,

I am not sure to fully understand what you are trying to achieve. The current version of the QuickLook plugin QLCARFiles is able to display the content of the file /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/SharedFrameworks/DVTUserInterfaceKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Assets.car:

Can you please clarify what you want to achieve?

[tysun]

Hi Timac,

Well, looking at the image I posted, I would like to download all of the icons+definitions of all the Intellisense data types.

B — binding

T — builtin type, typedef

c̱ — category

C — class, or class template

CE — class extension

M — method, method template, instance method, member

V — class variable, global variable, instance variable

K — const, enum constant

E — enum

F — field

ƒ — function, function template

A — IBAction method

O — IBOutlet, IBOutletCollection

# — macro

C (brown) — modeled class

M (brown) — modeled method

P (brown) — modeled property

N — namespace

x — parameter

P — property

Pr — protocol

S — struct

U — union
...

As you can also see, the data type icons are categorized by icon color groups:
Red: macros
Brown: Core Data / namespace
Orange: aliased types
Green: variables
Blue: methods
Purple: aggregate types

Someone on SO found the cassettes folder where they were located years ago, but the location and scheme seems to have changed. They might be generated on the fly.

Do you know anything about this?

Cheers

[Timac]

It seems to me that this wouldn't be a feature for QLCARFiles but a brand-new tool.