How can I cast, inspect pointers given back from the view debug hierarchy?

Asked Dec 13 '17 at 16:36

Active Dec 15 '17 at 18:56

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I keep getting errors of

hexadecimal floating literal requires an exponent

or if I try to cast some label pointer, e.g. do:

po 0x7ffded7e7cf0 as UIlabel

I get:

error: expected ';' after expression

error: unknown type name 'as'

I know I can see most of this information on the right panel, but I want to get the information from the console myself (e.g. a label's text).

edited Dec 15 '17 at 18:56

asked Dec 13 '17 at 16:36

mfaani

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"po" seems to like classic Objective-C syntax. Does `po [0x... backgroundColor]` work for you? – Phillip Mills Dec 13 '17 at 16:48
Hah! It worked! – mfaani Dec 13 '17 at 16:54
This **2nd** solution from [LLDB (Swift): Casting Raw Address into Usable Type](https://stackoverflow.com/a/42766226/5175709) **did** work when I had it stopped using the view debugger. Other answers didn't work. Also Philiips easy peasy solution `po [0x7ffded7e7cf0 text]` worked like a charm. Would you care to elaborate about your deleted comment as to why you thought it won't work when view debug hierarchy is running? I don't know about their conflicts, what you can or can't do. Is there any good document on that? – mfaani Dec 13 '17 at 17:00
@Honey I deleted my comment since I think that it and this question is an exact duplicate. – Tamás Sengel Dec 13 '17 at 17:04

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