Use Dashcode, a feature that debuted in Mac OS X Leopard, to create your own widgets or Web applications for your Mac computer, iPhone, or iPad. Using Dashcode is easy when you know quick keyboard shortcuts and how to streamline the Dashcode window. Get to know Dashcode templates and its Library of reusable interface parts and code snippets. Then you can test your product using Dashcode simulators.
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How to Create and Manage Dashcode Projects
Ready to use Dashcode to create widgets and Web apps? Everything you do in Dashcode is done inside the Dashcode window that's created for each project. Here are the commands you use to create and manage projects and their windows:
| New Project | Command -N |
| Deploy (from Run & Share) | option-Command-S |
| Run | Command-R |
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How to Show and Hide Parts of the Dashcode Window
The Dashcode window is always open when you're working on a project, but you can show and hide the individual parts (panes in tech-speak) of the window. Remember that most of these Dashcode shortcuts involve numbers. Don't confuse 1 (number 1) with l (lower-case letter L).
| Canvas | Command-1 |
| Run Log | option-Command-1 |
| Source Code | Command-2 |
| Files | Command-3 |
| Steps | Command-3 |
| Next File | option-Command-right arrow |
| Previous File | option-Command-left arrow |
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How to Use Keyboard Equivalents to Format in Dashcode
The Dashcode Format menu is full of fonts and commands to use for your projects. These fonts and commands affect selected text or, if none is selected, will affect text that you type in next. Commands may not be available from objects that don't support text.
Formatting fonts (in the Format→Font submenus)
These are the commands to format text. Text is automatically formatted in the code that you write, but these commands format text that appears in text fields and other interface elements.
| Show/Hide Fonts | Command -T |
| Bold (on/off) | Command-B |
| Italic (on/off) | Command -I |
| Bigger font size | Command -+ |
| Smaller font size | Command - |
Formatting paragraphs in Dashcode
The following commands, available in the Format→Text submenus, format paragraphs of text in the interface.
| Align left | shift-Command- { |
| Align center | shift-Command- | |
| Align right | shift-Command- } |
Arranging objects with keyboard equivalents
These commands are in the Arrange menu. Remember to select the objects to arrange before issuing the command or using the keyboard equivalent.
| Bring forward | option-shift-Command-F |
| Bring to front | shift-Command-F |
| Bring backward | option-shift-Command-B |
| Bring to back | shift-Command-B |
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How to Use Debugging Shortcuts in Dashcode
The Dashcode keyboard equivalents are particularly useful when you're using the debugger. That's because your attention is often focused elsewhere, and being able to control the debugger and its views from the keyboard without moving the mouse can prevent your debugger controls from interfering with the actual running of the program itself.
| Show/Hide Performance Monitor | option-Command-P |
| Show/Hide Resource Log | shift-Command-R |
| Show/Hide Breakpoints Windows | option-Command-B |
| Evaluator | option-Command-2 |
| Breakpoints | control-option-Command-1 |
| Start Tracing | shift-Command-T |
| Clear Run Log | Command-K |
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