Managing Programs in Xcode

[godwheel]

It might be a good idea to dedicate a few pages on program management in xcode. As someone new to the program, I have no idea how to go from exercise to excercise without having to retype everything.

For example I have to do all the exercises from scratch because I can't "save as" a project. I fear I will mess up some previous code.

If anyone has any ideas (or links) for us newbies to accomplish this, it would be awesome!

Thanks!

[nhohmann]

I agree entirely.  I recently tried saving a project under a different name (using Save As...) only to have it alter the name of just one of my .m files.  And then I couldn't change it back. 

As a result I ended up having to copy and paste into Word and then delete the original project that I had somehow managed to destroy.

Any guidance on the matter would be great.  Specifically, how to save an entire project under a new name.

[esc]

To bring an existing file into a project (so you can build on something you created already), from the Xcode main screen under the "Groups & Files" section, select the "Source" group (or wherever you have your *.m and *.h), do "ctrl click" over the selection.  A menu comes up:  Choose "Add" --> "Existing Files...".  When a popup asks you to confirm (add/cancel), make sure you choose the checkbox "Copy items into destination group's folder".

Apple also has documentation for Xcode managing projects.

[godwheel]

Did a bit of research and stumbled upon this:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/developertools/conceptual/XcodeQuickTour/qt_projects/qt_projects.html

It sorta helped me understand xcode a bit more. How do you guys do your project management?