It wasn't clearly explained in the blog post, but that .lldbinit command should be all on one line. It creates a new command, ”rd”, that can be used in two ways.
Typing “rd” by itself does “po [[UIApp keyWindow] recursiveDescription]”, so it dumps your entire on-screen view hierarchy.
Typing “rd someview” does “po [someview recursiveDescription]”, so it dumps the view hierarchy starting at a specific view.
For Mac (Cocoa) apps, the equivalent message is _subtreeDescription, but since a window is not a view, the entire-hierarchy command needs to be “po [[[NSApp frontWindow] contentView] _subtreeDescription]”.
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It wasn't clearly explained in the blog post, but that .lldbinit command should be all on one line. It creates a new command, ”rd”, that can be used in two ways.
Typing “rd” by itself does “po [[UIApp keyWindow] recursiveDescription]”, so it dumps your entire on-screen view hierarchy.
Typing “rd someview” does “po [someview recursiveDescription]”, so it dumps the view hierarchy starting at a specific view.
For Mac (Cocoa) apps, the equivalent message is _subtreeDescription, but since a window is not a view, the entire-hierarchy command needs to be “po [[[NSApp frontWindow] contentView] _subtreeDescription]”.