Quick question,
Does anyone know of an easy way to change the name of an ASS application?
Thanks.
-r
jonn8 wrote a post on this probably 2 years ago, but I couldn’t find it here anywhere with a couple quick searches. Aside from manually going through all 1million of his posts :o, you might just have to get lucky finding it (assuming it hasn’t been lost over the years). It involves making a bunch of changes in Xcode that I’ve never tested. Xcode projects make record of your app name in many (some not so obvious) places, so you have to be thorough when trying this. Depending on the complexity of your app, it may be better, and more complete of a renaming, to “simply” re-create the app using your new name. I find that doing this actually allows me the opportunity to resolve any issues I’d been having with my design or afterthoughts, and to clean up the code a bit.
Have fun…
j
Thanks for the reply.
I did as you suggested and just re-created the app. Although It took about 2 hours, it gave me (as you said) the chance to clean things up a bit.
Thanks again.
-r
OH my gosh I might actually have something useful to contribute! I went thru the pain and horror of simply trying to change the name of the resulting application my xcode project put out. Eventually I had it so balled up that I wasn’t able to produce a working app at all, and it’s just an applescript based app. Don’t get me started on Xcode crashing in spates when trying to compile scripts that called other local machines and weren’t authenticated or the target apps weren’t running.
I found this article very useful:
http://homepage.mac.com/kelleherk/iblog/C1216817469/E1454445171/
it seems to me there was one vague step, but I sorted it out and got my project back on track.
Cheers,
WM
Excellent article!
I’ll keep this handy for the next time around. And there will be a next time around.
Much appreciated.
-r