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Finding and editing all the references to a symbol

Situation: You need to make changes in a particular function. Before you start editing, you should know about all the references to the function.
We will start again from the Symbol Browser and select a function to work with.

  1. To open the Symbol Browser from any tool, choose Tools > Symbol Browser.
  2. Press the Filters... button.
  3. In the SymbolTypes tab, select only the function check box and press Ok.
  4. In the Symbol List, navigate to and then highlight update .
  5. Choose Info > update Referred-By.
    In the Cross Referencer, you now see where
    update is referred to by other symbols in project. You also see the number of references in each case.
    Notice that the arrowhead now points at the class
    update . This tells you the reference direction.
  6. Close the Symbol Browser.