Xcode debugging - displaying images

Question

I love using the Xcode debugger. You can take a look at a variable\'s value and even change it.

But can I somehow DISPLAY the image that is referenced by an image va

Answer 1

EDIT:

As of Xcode 5, the debugger can show you the visual representation of UIImage/CGImageRef variables!

Xcode itself can't do it. I don't know about external tools.

What i'm doing to test images while debugging is to convert that raw data into an image-file format, like .png, and then saving it somewhere, and then i'm opening the image with any image viewing tool.

I have a piece of code for that purpose, which look basically like that:

NSData *imageData = UIImagePNGRepresentation(self.myUIImage);
[imageData writeToURL:desktopURL atomically:YES];

And i'm just copy-pasting this code where i want to see content of an image on the run.

Make sure to get rid of this code as soon as possible due to the high-cost of the conversion of UIImage to NSData