I am working on an existing iOS Project in Xcode 10.2.1 on macOS 10.14.4. The uses mainly Objectiv-C but also some Swift Pods (v. 1.5.2). Recently I have also added the first Swift based ViewController using Swift 5.
The Problem:
When working on the XIB file of this Swift bases ViewController after a short time the following error message is shown in the Xcode sidebar:
IB Designables: Failed to render and update auto layout status for
ViewXYZ (abc-de-123): The agent crashed
As soon as there error occur no changes in the Interface Builder (added view, changed colors, text, etc.) are shown anymore. When I re-open the XIB file it only show grey view placeholders instead of the real content.
The problem can only be solved by re-starting Xcode but when working on the XIB again it shows up after again after just a few moment.
Things that did NOT work
Since the problem is realted to IB Designabales I checked these first. Within the ViewController I am using two different custom views which are implemented in Objective-C and marked as IB_DESIGNABLE.
These views have not been changed recently and it was never a problem to use them before. Removing all custom code from these views did not change the problem. Thus there seems to be nothing wrong with the implementation.
I found other topics dealing with similar issues, but none of the different solutions worked for me:
Re-starting the Mac, re-starting Xcode, cleaning the build folder or deleting ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData does NOT solve the problem
Adding this code to the pod file does NOT solve the problem
Adding all UIView constructors to the views as proposed here does NOT solve the problem.
Xcode shows that the designables are up to date and does NOT offer a debug button (as shown here)
The views do not have orphant outlets
Re-creating the XIB from scratch let to the same issue
Not using the Bundle or other device specific code within the custom views did NOT solve the problem. As described before I removed ALL custom code from the classes so that they where simple UIView subclasses without any changes.
So far nothing I tried had any effect. However, most answers I found are quite old. Are there are any new proposals to solve this issue?
Ever since upgrading to Xcode 6.3 I can't create IBOutlet references and can't set my UIViewController items (or any other types of items for that matter) to my own custom implementations.
The drop down under "Custom Class - Class" shows nothing but regular stock classes.
If I put in the class manually and the module manually it works, but I have to create my outlets in the most annoying way by ctrl+dragging the item into code.
I've tried a number of answers that have been on here including the magical 'remove derived data and restart' answer for everything.
Anyone else with this issue that can shed some light?
EDIT:
Have tried:
Uninstalling / reinstalling xcode
Deleting user data
Deleting derived data
Restarting after doing all of the above
Perhaps the update to 6.3.1 is not the root cause - this SO question has some answers that may hold a clue if you have not already seen it.
I've been following a tutorial on how to create a custom info window for the Google Maps SDK and when I try to connect the UILabel declarations in the obj-c file to the labels in the XIB file, nothing happens. I can't even connect the labels in the XIB file to the interface declaration and create them that way. Here's a link to an image of my setup:
Is this a bug with the new version of XCode or am I doing something wrong?
Go to Identity inspector and make sure that you conect your .xib with proper class.
You should have there CustomInfoWindow
I just got this error in one of my apps, and after checking some other apps the same error is happening. None of my IBOutlets and IBActions are connected anymore. When I recreate the outlet by control-dragging into the .h file, the outlet still displays the error in Connections Inspector > Outlets, saying (view controller) does not have an outlet named (subview). Before today I didn't have this problem, so is to do with Xcode 6? The view controller is referencing the correct class under Identity Inspector > Custom Class. I have deleted the derived data folder, removed the reference to the .h file, cleaned the project, and cleaned the build folder. None of that has worked and I can't progress with development until this issue is fixed.
Update: I just reopened the project after a couple of days and my outlets no longer have the exclamation mark next to them, and the 'easyLabel' outlet that I disconnected has reappeared. I didn't change anything, so I guess it's a bug in Xcode 6-6.1.
Update 2: This error came back. Exclamation marks next to every outlet. If I delete them I can't re-add them. Can't create new outlets. Also can't give a view controller a custom class. I really just want to make some progress on an app, but this issue keeps recurring. Really just can't stand it anymore. Any help would be appreciated.
Duplicate of: Xcode 6: can't connect any IBOutlet to ViewController but here's the trick:
You can also see that the link between the parent view and the custom class is broken (not visible anymore) which is a huge problem.
I had the exact same issue with the app i'm working on actually, updating Xcode from 5.xxx to 6.1. The workaround that worked for me was to remove the reference of every view controller and re-add them to the project... Unfortunately, in some cases, mine actually, all the connections get lost again when XCode is closed.
To everyone facing that issue, here's the (annoying) trick :
Step 1 : select both .h and .m view controller files
Step 2 : remove the reference of those files
Step 3 : re-add the files to your project tree
Step 4 : open the storyboard, eventually re-build the project and smile
I can understand those things could be reaaally annoying, but it worked for me... Hope it will help someone else !
I had the exact same problem and what was breaking my storyboards was the fact that my project was inside the folder /Dropbox (MyName)/projects/
Apparently something about the name of the dropbox folder with spaces and ( ) was BREAKING my storyboard completely, try what I did and move your project completely to another folder and see if that helps :)
I had the same problem, changed the class under identity Inspector > Custom Class to something else, saved it and then set it again to the correct one, after doing that the connections appeared normally.
I had this issue with a Swift UIViewController subclass. I had removed the original view that IB created for me, and added a new view—which I was unable to connect.
I went to the Identity inspector for the File's owner, and tried to re-enter it, thinking that maybe it had been modified somehow. Oddly, the class name did not autocomplete. It seemed like XCode was unable to actually see my class.
I tried removing and re-adding both the .swift and .xib files, to no avail. XCode would allow me to manually type in my owning class name, but it would not autocomplete. It seemed to think it didn't exist, or wasn't valid for this context.
Looking back at my code, I had something like the following:
extension SomeViewController {
func foo() -> Bool {
return false
}
}
class SomeViewController: UIViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
}
}
It compiles just fine, but on a hunch, I removed the extension. I saved the file, went back to the .xib, and was able to set the File's Owner identity with autocompletion again. I was also able to wire up the view.
It would suck if extensions always broke things of course, so I tried again, this time with the extension after the class:
class SomeViewController: UIViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
}
}
extension SomeViewController {
func foo() -> Bool {
return false
}
}
Everything still worked in IB. To sanity check, I moved the extension back ahead of the class definition, and things were again horked.
I took a look a the *-Swift.h generated by XCode, and at least relative to the affected class, there seemed to be no differences—regardless of where I put the extensions in the Swift file, they were always declared after the #interface definition for the actual class in the header.
So, long story short, in my case this was due to Swift extensions (I say extensions because my actual code has many) coming before the class definition. I moved them after the class definition, and the problem went away.
For me I had to remove the reference and add back to my project the -XIB- file for my view controller. Simply removing the view controller .h/.m did not reset the outlets, but removing the .xib and adding it back did!
I have this problem only with #protocol defined IBOutlets if I don't redefine them in the implementing class.
Probably the only thing we can do is file a bug.
Why dont you update your xcode 6.0.1 to xcode 6.1, Apple have fixed many bugs.
Download Xcode 6
Do you get the same issue if you connect the actions/outlets in Interface Builder instead of the assistant editor? For actions try control dragging from your object in IB to your first responder object (or whatever you have your class set to).
#robb actually discovered the fix for this, but the issue he found was that the group in the project that mirrored a folder on disk used a different case.
So if the project group was Broken/classone.m
and on disk it was broken/classone.m
Interface builder could not find the files. Renaming either the group or the folder to match case resolved the issue.
I was having the same issue but it was because i changed the name of the view controller in the Project Navigator to MapViewController but its name stayed the same (ViewController) in the code. once i changed it, it worked
I've had this same problem since using XCode 6.1, answers above didn't work for me. (removing/re-adding my class files, changing the class to something else and then changing it back. The only thing I didn't try was creating a new project from scratch).
I noticed by accident that my 'Application' placeholder within the MainMenu.xib had somehow got its class set to NSObject. Changing that to NSApplication seemed to clear the 'does not have an outlet named' problem from all of my other objects.
I updated my project from Xcode 6.x to Xcode 7.x about two months ago without any issues. But then this morning I ran into this bug. I tried pretty much everything on this page but nothing worked. But then Justin Middleton's solution gave me an idea.
When I switched my project from the 10.9 SDK to the 10.11 SDK, I decided I wanted my code to remain backwards compatible just in case I had to revert back to Xcode 6.2. So I put Preprocessor code around several of my object declarations, e.g.:
// This caused the (!) problem in Interface Builder
#if( MAC_OS_X_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED > MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_10 )
#interface CLChatWindowController : NSObject <WebPolicyDelegate, WebUIDelegate, WebFrameLoadDelegate>
#else
#interface CLChatWindowController : NSObject
#endif
...
// Removing all the Preprocessor code fixed the problem
#interface CLChatWindowController : NSObject <WebPolicyDelegate, WebUIDelegate, WebFrameLoadDelegate>
....
Once I removed all the Preprocessor code, the (!) characters in Interface Builder disappeared and everything went back to normal. Hope that helps someone.
Xcode 6.3.2. Similar issue. A project(s) that i've been working on suddenly 'disconnects' IBOutlets and shows the error
view controller does not have an outlet named (subview)
The project still builds and works and if you hover over the IBOutlets in code it thinks there are still connected.
I've nailed this down (at least in my case) to an issue with storing projects on dropbox (similar to an above post). The fix for me was super easy:
Drag the project folder off of dropbox to your desktop. Then drag the project back into dropbox.
This solution has fixed numerous projects with the issue.
Try to add the header file to the project, if it's missing.
I had this in Xcode 7.0.1 on a swift project. Specifically, tableview cell connections were broken (permanently) while other things still worked. Deleting derived data, rebooting etc - nothing worked.
My solution ended up being:
Close xcode project
Delete derived data for project (Window->Projects)
Rename the entire project/source folder, ie. project -> project-1
(Update source-management bookmarks like sourcetree as required)
Open project in xcode (from finder): notice that the storyboard and a few other files are in red. Delete the references, re-add them. Boom, it works.
Note that deleting the reference to the storyboard and readding it, even with deleted derived data, was not enough. The rename of the entire source folder was necessary for me.
Whenever I attempt to open up my storyboard, Xcode crashes with the following error report
The funny thing is, the app works fine in the simulator and builds without errors. What is causing this crash? I see two possible crashes:
Exception reason: UITableView dataSource is not set
, but that shouldn't make the storyboard crash right?
Details: Failed to compute auto layout status IBLayoutConstraint, IBUIButton, IBUIDatePicker, IBUITextField, IBUIView, IBUIViewController, and IBUIViewControllerAutolayoutGuide.
Which doesn't give much information at all.
I have been using a storyboard with Xcode 5 for some time, so the question does not appear to be related to moving from Xcode 4 to 5. I can open the storyboard as XML and I can open my iPhone storyboard just fine.
If you are using git, I would recommend reverting to a time before this problem started.
If you are not using git, and you are absolutely sure you did not edit the xml for the storyboard then I would say:
1)find the storyboard file using the finder.
2)copy it to your desktop.
3)go back to Xcode and delete the storyboard from your project, select "move to trash". 4)re-import the storyboard file into your project.
Ive had similar problems with Xcode 5 and either reverting using git or the steps above usually get me back up and running.
Exception reason: UITableView dataSource is not set
Details: Failed to compute auto layout status IBLayoutConstraint, IBUIButton, IBUIDatePicker, IBUITextField, IBUIView, IBUIViewController, and IBUIViewControllerAutolayoutGuide.
The errors described above lead me to think that one if not all viewcontroller(s) for the items listed above lost their connectivity to viewcontroller.h / viewcontroller.m files. I would make sure you have everything wired up correctly, and you can check this by making sure the items in your viewcontroller have a circle in the gutter (next to the line numbers) that is filled in (solid) if the circle is not filled in then it means your items are not wired up to your viewcontroller. I would post a picture of your .h / .m file of your viewcontroller so we can further investigate.
I ended up copying each view controller scene (in XML) into a new storyboard. Some view controllers could not be copied without the storyboard crashing so I had to recreate about 4 of them, but by and large I got the majority of my work back.
What you need to do is reopen the project again in Xcode 5 and then go to the storyboard. Then at the right side choose for "Identity and type" and then set "opens in" to Xcode 4.6 to be able to open it in Xcode 4.6. And disable auto layout, somehow when you open it in xcode 5 it asks you to update it, I think you did that without a thought, happened to me as well :)