Xcode regions

Does Xcode support anything akin to Visual Studio style #region directives for arbitrary code folding?

From stackoverflow

• No, you can only fold code on various defined scoping levels in Xcode.

  You can use little tricks to make navigating via the function menu easier, though.

  #pragma mark
  

  Allows you to create a grouping where the label following mark will show up in the function menu. If the label is a hyphen, a separator is inserted into the function menu.

  Also, the following labels in comments will show up in the function menu:

  // MARK:
  // TODO:
  // FIXME:
  // !!!:
  // ???:
  

  Obviously since #pragma mark is not really portable, if you're building a portable application and need it to work with a compiler that doesn't just ignore #pragma directives that it doesn't understand, the comment-style mark is a decent alternative.

• I am going to hell for this but here goes:

  At the top of a given file, put

  #define FOLD 1
  

  Wherever you want to fold something, wrap it in an if block like so:

  if(FOLD) {
   // your code to hide
   // more code
  }
  

  That will let you fold it away out of sight.

  Chuck : It would be a good idea, but you can only put an if statement inside a function scope. You can't wrap struct, enum and function definitions in an if.

• That won't work in the place you want it most, that is, around groups of functions or methods.

  It may be useful inside a long, linear method with no internal conditionals or loops, but such methods aren't common in general Mac OS X UI code, though if you're writing some big numeric or graphics-crunching code it could help group things.

  And the if(fold) is entirely superfluous. Just use the braces inside a method or function and Xcode will fold them.