How to @IBOutlet in the storyboard?

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Created Dec ’21

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I am new to iOS development. I got a project to maintain, the problem is that I can't find where in the storyboard belongs the variable. For example, in my ViewControl there is such a line

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@IBOutlet weak var imgBottomFade: UIImageView!
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So, I need to find this UI view in the storyboard, I open storyboard, but I see there are more than 10 screens each of them pretty sophisticated, and I start to click on each view on the screen and check the name (equal to imgBottomFade), one view by another, one screen by another... pretty annoying, I believe in XCode should be kind of way to find out where the UI view connects from Controller to Storyboard.

Let me know what I missed?

Answered by Claude31 in 698217022

What you could do:

open both code file and storyboard
zoom out to view the whole storyboard (25% or smaller scale factor)
move mouse over the black dot in front of IBOutlet
observe carefully in storyboard: you should see the UIImageView highlighted

or

search for imgBottomFade in the search bar (at the very top left)
you will find at the end of the list a reference to Main
click it
that will position the storyboard on the relevant VC
expand view in the left panel of storyboard
you should easily find imgBottomFade in the list of objects.

or

search ViewControl VC in storyboard (just 10 to inspect)
select it and expand its view object in the left panel of storyboard.
you should find imgBottomFade in the list of objects.

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Claude31 OP

Dec ’21

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What you could do:

open both code file and storyboard
zoom out to view the whole storyboard (25% or smaller scale factor)
move mouse over the black dot in front of IBOutlet
observe carefully in storyboard: you should see the UIImageView highlighted

or

search for imgBottomFade in the search bar (at the very top left)
you will find at the end of the list a reference to Main
click it
that will position the storyboard on the relevant VC
expand view in the left panel of storyboard
you should easily find imgBottomFade in the list of objects.

or

search ViewControl VC in storyboard (just 10 to inspect)
select it and expand its view object in the left panel of storyboard.
you should find imgBottomFade in the list of objects.

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