This is crazy! I opened two separate editor windows by double-clicking in the files navigator. Then I closed Xcode.
Now, every time I open my project Xcode is completely gone. All I get are these two separate editor windows. I tried everything to get Xcode back, but when I open this particular project there is no Xcode interface - just the two lightweight editor windows.
Did anyone else encounter this problem? Is there anything else I can do, other than creating a blank new project from scratch and copying everything over?
There's no such thing as a "lightweight editor window" in Xcode 4. What you're seeing is a window that has the toolbar, tab bar, navigator pane, and utilities pane all hidden. You can show them again from the View menu.
To bring back everything:
View->Show Toolbar
View->Show Tab Bar
View->Navigators->Show Navigator
View->Utilities->Show Utilities
The last two can also be done from buttons on the toolbar.
Depending on what you expect the window to look like, you may also need to use View->Debug Area->Show Debug Area.
Select one of these editor windows, and then go to View -> Show toolbar. There is the rest of your interface.
Try going to the menu and selecting Navigate and "Reveal in Project navigator"
With the project open, select View > Show Toolbar.
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Every now and then, I see tutorials allowing to add components to a storyboard by clicking a plus sign on the right up corner of the editor:
Bu I do not have this button. And it seems that there is no menu available.
I have to say that I'm trying to modify the storyboard outside of any project by opening the file alone.
Any help appreciated.
The plus button should be available on the right side of Project Header Section[Tool Bar] as Shown in the image
Based on the selected file different screens will be opened when we click on the + button.
We can also use the keyboard shortcut cmd+shift+L
Verified on Xcode Version 14.1 (14B47b)
Update:
As this option is available on the Toolbar, it may not be available if the toolbar itself is hidden. To toggle the visibility of toolbar we can use the shortcut cmd+option+T
I just oen the xcode "xcworkspace" it's open directly to the small screen without any tools or bars how can i back to the normal workspace ?
Try below option may be it will work
Right-click on the toolbar area beside your project title, i think you can see 'Show Toolbar' option & click it.
On the far right of this toolbar, click the leftmost 'Show Navigator' button in the group of three 'View' icons.
This should present your project in the navigator on the left for you to access.
Even after deleting derived data many times, and trying other things, I am still facing this problem. Can you help me?
You can try using the shortcut key instead, to open up the assistant editor.
Shortcut key: -
option + click on the file which you want to open up in the assistant editor
Guys I just stop dealing with this problem by changing the settings in xcode 9.2. And now i use Navigation Pane.
Here is how it works :
Ok now if you go to xcode -> preferences -> navigation
and Choose the "Uses Focused Editor" as in the picture below.
Now you can manually select inside the Navigation Pane.
Just click whichever page you would like to change and select in the Navigation Pane.
Here is a few screenshots :
Pictures shows code files but it works with everything you can click in the Navigation Pane.
Try to drag and drop file from the Project Navigator into the path of the Assistant Editor as temporary fix.
You also can click on this icon to bring recent files.
Try to clean your project, clean Build Folder, restart Xcode.
Make sure the view controller in your Storyboard has correct custom class name.
I think I know the problem you're having. I experience it too, but it's intermittent. Sometimes clicking Manual shows me the entire project folder and I can select the editable classes, but other times it only shows the interface versions of them, which aren't editable and cannot have IBOutlets dragged to them (you can tell b/c it'll say internal class and has less code). I have noticed that if I toggle back and forth between Automatic and Manual, I can usually get the editable class to appear. I also will toggle the assistant editor off, select a different View Controller or two on the storyboard, then go back to my original one, turn the Assistant Editor back on, and it starts working again.
There are other discussions of it here, here, and here. This suggestion of turning off indexing sounds intriguing and worth a try if the problem keeps reappearing. UPDATE: This trick with hitting the + and opening a 2nd file, then closing the interface file, worked great when I tried it just now.
Here are pics of how the Automatic side shows the actual file when the Manual side only shows the interface, which says internal next to class:
I have a problem with Xcode 7.1.1. The upper part of the UI (the container of the run button, manage scheme etc.) keeps disappearing when I close another opened project. If I have two project opened, closing one, the problem occcurs. I can't bring it back, the only option that I have is to close Xcode and open it again. Here's some screenshot of the page and the view menu.
The toolbar is visible, you can see it in the second and third screenshot, but its content it's hidden.
Anyone having the same problem or some solutions?
XCode will open the project with the interface configured the same way as the last file that was opened. If your interface is opening with the toolbar and project navigator minimized it means that you double clicked a file and opened it in its own window. XCode thinks that this was the last file opened so it uses this as the default.
To resolve right click on the top of the window and selecting "show toolbar"
You can also hide same way by right clicking and hide toolbar.
Keyboard shorcut: cmd + alt + T
Or in the menu: View>Show Toolbar
For showing:
... and for hidding:
In XCode Preferences. You can set the behaviour of the toolbar. I suspect,it must be set to hide.
i used this way and worked for me
View -> Show Toolbar
In an Xcode project, I see XML when clicking on MainStoryBoard.storyboard instead of the graphical design, why and how to restore the right view ?
Update: I think it's a bug of XCode 4.2 because on another project, when I click on version editor I have XML but when I click on standard editor it shows visual design.
Is there a way to fix this and not to force me to recreate my visual design by hand once again ?
To fix the issue, right-click MainStoryboard.storyboard, then choose "Open as >" and then "Interface Builder - iOS Storyboard".
Make sure you are not using the source control editor, which shows you the changes for a given file. You can change this in the Toolbar at the top right.
Check this link in the section "Editor"
This worked for me using xcode 6
I've run into this issue, but it was a bit different. I had a merge issue with Git on my storyboard, so I had to manually edit the XML to resolve the conflict. After this, there was no 'Interface Builder-iOS Storyboard' option available in the "Open as" menu so I couldn't change it back to the visual editor. To fix this I simply restarted XCode and everything went back to normal.
After using SeanK's solution (restart XCode) I still manually needed to right-click the storyboard and choose Open as > Interface Builder - iOS Storyboard.
If you have more than just one storyboard go back and forth - click different one, go back to the one you want to display as an iOS storyboard. It's not XML any longer.
Change the extension like this "your_storyboard.storyboard" then right-click MainStoryboard.storyboard, then choose "Open as >" and then "Interface Builder - iOS Storyboard".