I found myself doing this a gazillion times over the last days: click the VMMaker's "generate plugin" button, switch to XCode, invoke the plugin build, switch back to Squeak, unload the plugin to test the new one.
No more.
A few lines of code automate all of this:
VMMaker>>generateExternalPlugins ... externalPlugins size = 1 ifTrue: [ | result | logger show: 'XCode: building ', externalPlugins first, ' ... '. result := Applescript doIt: 'tell application "XCode" to build'. logger show: result; cr. (result beginsWith: '"Build succeeded') ifTrue: [Smalltalk unloadModule: externalPlugins first] ifFalse: [Applescript doIt: 'tell application "XCode" to activate']].
Now I just click "generate plugin" and debug on. Life is bright again. Except for the occasional crash, of course :)
- Bert -