Feb 01 2009

Change Company Name in Xcode

Published by at 8:16 pm under Xcode

  

Although covered many other places on the net, I recently had to make a change to the name that Xcode automagically inserts when creating new files, so I figured I’d also pass on this tip to readers of this blog as well.

By default, Xcode inserts a company name something similar to the following in all new source files (.m .h etc):

Copyright (c) 2009 MyCompanyName. All rights reserved.

Changing this reference is as simple as entering the following from within a terminal window, replacing “YourNameHere” with the text you prefer. Also, make sure this is all entered on one line in the terminal.

defaults write com.apple.Xcode PBXCustomTemplateMacroDefinitions 
   '{ORGANIZATIONNAME="YourNameHere";}'

4 responses so far

4 Responses to “Change Company Name in Xcode”

  1. # charexon 02 Feb 2009 at 2:19 am

    Or you can also insert a company name in your Address Book entry.

  2. # Rick Shaferon 13 Feb 2009 at 10:28 am

    Or you could even go to ~/Library/Preferences and double-click com.apple.Xcode.plist and use the handy-dandy plist editor to set this and a whole bunch of other interesting defaults not covered by the Xcode or IB preference panels.

  3. # Ryan Morlokon 16 Feb 2009 at 10:38 pm

    You can also change the whole template XCode uses to generate these boilerplate comments, or create entirely custom templates for your XCode projects/files. Dylan covers how to do all that here.

  4. # Walt Sellerson 09 Sep 2010 at 12:56 pm

    You can open the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Xcode.plist file directly in XCode now. It will present the file and has an advantage over Property List editor; XCode can search a plist.