For the More Curious: Using Interface Builder’s View Hierarchy Popover

Selecting nested views in Interface Builder can be a trying ordeal. You can spend a great deal of time clicking repeatedly, trying to navigate to just the right view. Luckily, Interface Builder provides you with three different mechanisms for selecting just the view you want: the document outline, the jump bar, and the view hierarchy popover. In Figure 9.27, you can see the selected Name table column in the context of the entire hierarchy of XIB objects.

Figure 9.27  The Name table column selected in the document outline

The Name table column selected in the document outline

The document outline, as you have ...

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