iPad Application Development For Dummies, 3rd Edition

Finding and Searching in Your Project

You’ll find that, as your classes get bigger, sometimes you’ll want to find a symbol or some other text in your project. Xcode provides a number of ways to do that.

Using the Find command to locate an item in a file

Need to track down a single symbol or all occurrences of a symbol in a file or class? You can easily locate what you’re looking for by choosing Edit⇒Find⇒Find or pressing +F, which opens a Find toolbar above the Editor pane to help you search the file in the editor.

For example, as shown in Figure 7-13, I entered viewDidLoad in the Find toolbar. Xcode found both instances of viewDidLoad in the Source editor and highlighted them. (Admittedly, the first highlight is a tad darker.)

Figure 7-13: You can use Find to locate something in a file.

You can jump from one instance to the next by pressing +G. Or you can use the Previous and Next buttons (left and right arrows) on the Find bar.

Click the Find pop-up menu in Find toolbar and choose Replace to do a file-level replace.

Click the magnifying glass in the Search field in the Find toolbar ...