I am new to programming on the Apple Mac. I have followed a programming guide supplied in the Mac Developer Library to program a basic GUI program called TrackMix. In this program you place a textbox, a vertical slider and a button control on the view window. Initially, on dragging the specific object, say the textbox, to the window, a set of alignment guides (dotted blue lines) would automatically appear on the canvas when the object is dragged over it. I dont know what has happened, but now those guides have disappeared when I execute the same action of dragging objects to the window. When the object being dragged is over the window a small green dot, with a plus sign in it, appears on the bottom of the object. I have carefully retraced my steps to be exactly the same as stated in the Developer Library, but still the problem persist. Have I, perhaps, involuntarily changed some Xcode settings or what? I am at the end of my wits! PS: I am using Xcode 7.
You have to toggle the menu item "Editor > Canvas > Snap To Guides" in Storyboard. I hope that helps
I am not sure whether this will be helpful, but I just had the same problem and the only thing which worked was re-installing Xcode (7.3) and trashing all of the Xcode preferences.
Good luck.
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I have the Canvas preview open and auto-refreshing the view that I am working on.
When I click on the pin in the bottom left corner, it fills with blue, giving me the impression that it's been pinned. But, when I navigate to a different view, that view is then previewed and the pin in the bottom left is still highlighted blue.
I'm currently worthing within Xcode 11.5.
I've experienced the same issue on the, as of writing, latest Xcode 12.4. After messing around with it, I've been able to figure it out; the trick is to make sure that at the time of pinning, the live preview is off. Then pin, change previews, and voila.
Does anybody know, how to change the appearance of the title bar and/or toolbar of a simple & small one-window cocoa macOS application without accessing the Xcode or installing third party applications? It's for a screen recording video project, I want to do.
I know, that there are possibilities within the applications info.plist (for example changing the app title inside the top macOS Menu Bar) but I would like to be able to change the apps window title itself and/or colors and/or fonts inside the window title bar or toolbar if possible.
Opening the app in another container window or via terminal or Applescript and adding custom parameters or even an overlay in the right position to change the styling would be okay if this is possible?
Can somebody point me in the right direction?
Thank you very much!
in short: Nibs
Nib File Viewer works until Xcode 10
saving, recompiling if possible
good luck
First, the links are to screen shots of my "problem". Stackoverflow would not let me post images b/c I don't have at least a 10 reputation.
I am not sure what I did.
Shut down my computer, I think there was an OS X update pending that installed. When I went back to my Xcode project it presented the normal screen
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzpqJUv4HwzCbldESkRnZHR0Tk0/edit
But then when I went to open it up the following screen w/o the editor or any of the normal layout opened up.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzpqJUv4HwzCZ2ZJOF9fSzAybUk/edit
I tried tinkering with the layout and view screens, but no real help. Not sure what happened. Any help would be most appreciated. Basically, it seems like I am missing the editor and utilities panes.
Thanks,
You see that little button with the left arrow and two vertical lines at the right upper end of the "Groups and files" view? Click and drag it left, see it this can help.
I see no settings at all under Size Inspector in Interface Builder, it is completely blank for my View, all labels and all buttons. I am using xcode 4.6 and have 'Use Autolayout' unchecked and the metrics (Size, Status Bar, Top Bar, Bottom Bar) are all 'None'. I need to be able to control the autoresizingmask, but why can't I see any size properties?
Once you switch to Size Inspector tab, directly under the icon there is a little header that says "View." If you hover over that some text appears that says "Show," because apparently that section can collapse down. Clicking the header should cause the options you expect to appear.
I wish they would make this more clear, because I completely missed it as well, and restarted Xcode several times.
I ran into this problem using Xcode 5.0 but upon further investigation, discovered the dysfunction ran to a higher degree - all Inspector views in Xcode were blank for every control, and the Navigator buttons didn't work either.
The culprit seems to have been a conflict in versioning. When I re-checked out trunk, Xcode returned to expected behavior.
Resizing the Xcode window made things right again for me - go figure.
This worked for me......
Clear Menu -> Recent Files
i cleared last open storyboard from Recent files
Restart Xcode
Ok, so I come from programming in Visual Basic on PCs, and now I'm trying to remake my programs on OS X with Xcode, and so far I have been successful. One thing I have noticed, however, is that when I try to resize the window, controls either stay in the same place or stick to one side. In Visual Basic, I used the "anchor" or "dock" properties to decide whether controls would stretch as the window resized or if the stayed to one side. I was just wondering if there is an easy way to do this in Interface Builder. I am using Xcode 4.5.1 and any help I could get would be great.
Thanks in advance!
In IB, click on the file inspector (The first icon), then make sure auto layout is not checked. Then go to the size inspector (The 5th icon) and make your changes.
(source: fredandrandall.com)