I am started using XCode and for some reason my autocomplete/suggestion box not showing below the current line of code as expected.
I can change the location and size with my mouse and maybe after changing it by mistake it's stuck but I didn't found any "change to default" settings or other people reporting about this issue.
Image from my editor you can see there the box is always shown in this location
Someone helped me the solution was:
try restarting Xcode
completely
and also if it doesn't fix it try to delete your archives and user data
Xcode -> preferences -> Locations - > delete derived data and archives
My Fix Was:
Exit Xcode totally then delete derived data and archives
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Sometimes in Xcode 6 Assistant Editor -> Preview stops working.
Showing just "No selection" even if no errors and Storyboard is ok.
Why does this happen?
The reason is "?" (questionmark) in Project's name (maybe there is a bug with other symbols – didn't check it).
You can try to rename Project or just create new one with name without "?" in it.
You must to Kill Xcode from processes for complete and then open it again. You can do it with Activity Monitor o CLI. Voila! - Preview is working again.
Don't just close Xcode keeping the app working. Sometimes also works closing with CMD + Q.
I had similar problem, but fixed it
You must open the xib or storyboard file in both assistant editors. Click the navigation button in the second editor (either the bottom or the right editor, depending on how you stack the assistant editors) and choose Preview to get the preview to appear.
thanks to
http://meandmark.com/blog/2014/09/xcode-6-no-simulate-document-in-interface-builder/comment-page-1/#comment-2883
I have played with Xcode 6 for a while and I encountered similar problems occasionally. I never used special characters in project or class names but the problem sometimes happens.
Now I have to test all ViewControllers at starting point to see if the Assistant Editor work. If not, I will just delete the class file and recreate the same one, it usually fix the problem.
Hope this can be fixed soon.
I just accidentally deleted some files form Xcode proj , but I am sure I pressed the remove reference only button , but all of my images have deleted from my project and I can't locate them on my hard , is there anyway to recover these images ? there is no sign of images in trash !!!
DON'T PANIC AND BE HOPEFUL ,
check out your last Device or Simulator build on the Product folder
select your file and click reveal in finder
then right click on you app file and select Show package content , if you be lucky your lost files would be there
Xcode doesn't move them if you click "Remove References Only." That means if you can't find them on your hard drive now, they're probably lost. Please tell me you were using source control? Or, at the very least, Time Machine?
The Project Navigator has this nifty filter at the bottom (icon with a clock). When you click it, it only shows the files which have been edited recently.
Problem: There seems to be no way to reset this. My project has nearly 200 source files and I use a lot of them from day to day. So this list is getting bigger and bigger, and therefore less useful over time.
Often I am just done with something and then I'd just want to get rid of these files in the recents filter.
Is there a secret way to reset the filter? Xcode4 must store this information somewhere.
Navigate into the .xcproject or .xcworkspace package using the terminal or open package in Finder. Clear the contents of the <username>.xcuserdata folder.
I had this problem today, and apparently Apple fixed the bug. Just click on the clock icon again to toggle.
For me, restarting Xcode (I'm using 7.2) reduces the number of files shown when the "recent files" filter is on. But I don't know how the files that still remain are determined.
I've migrated an Xcode project (iOS app) from one mac to another (same Dev Account and Code Signing preferences). Now the build fails and I get errors stating that certain files (MainWindow.xib, MyappViewController.xib and InfoPlist.string) don't exist. I've already read that several people have had this problem before and tried out the answers they got, but nothing seems to work.
As I understand, the problem lies within the path preferences for the NIB files. The error messages give the files' path as Users/Meonmyoldmac/etc - which I should change, because it's an absolute path and therefore doesn't make sense on another computer. But: when I try to open those files under Groups & Files their location is already set to 'Relative to group' and their path is given as Users/Meonmynewmac/etc. - which is exactly how I actually want it to be. (Oddly enough, the file type is listed as 'Default - Unknown' )
I've already tried…
- cleaning the project
- deleting those files from the project and putting them back in again
- restarting Xcode several times
that's possibly important:
- I'm talking about a Universal iOS App, yet only iPhone files are affected; their iPad equivalents work fine
- I changed the app localization to German, so the mentioned files are located in a folder called de.lproj
- I created the project with Xcode 4 on my older Snow Leopard Mac and use Lion/Xcode 4.2 on the new one - does that play any role here?
Thanks in advance, Fruity
If you have absolute paths to some of your files, you'll need to change them to relative paths:
In the Project Navigator, locate the missing files (colored red for not being found) and highlight one of them.
Show the File Inspector
Under Location change Absolute Path to Relative to group or Relative to project,
Then next to the path, there's a little white icon, click it and choose the file's location.
Right-click on the files in Finder, select Get Info. Check that you have permission to read the files.
Edit: Just noticed the error messages refer to the old path, so it can't be a permissions problem.
Groups can have paths set as well. Select the groups and verify that their paths are correct.
In XCode 4, when you have all three panes open, select the file in the left most pane. In the right most pane, select the white document icon at the top, looking for the header "Identity and Type." Under the popup for "location" is the name of the file. To the right of that name is a tiny icon like a window. Click on that, and you can set the location of the file.
I performed the terminal search suggested by Jim yesterday, found some 'source tree: absolute' entries in project.pbxproj and tried to manipulate them, which didn't work - couldn't even open the project in Xcode afterwards - so I called it a day.
Just now I did what I already tried yesterday before posting my question: I deleted the files from the project and copied them back in again. That miraculously eliminated all red warning signs from my project and just gave me a nice green SIGABRT when I tried to run it on the simulator. Cleaned project, restarted Xcode - perfect. Oh, and I checked the targeted device family setting, found that it was set to iPhone and switched it to iPhone/iPad - no idea if that was part of the issue.
I'm not sure if that's really an answer to the problem - but the problem has vanished...
Thanks for your help!
A less-actions solution. You can change manually in the project definition file.
Close xCode
Open .xcodeproj file in a text editor: in fact it's a folder, so edit in a text editor the inside file: project.pbxproj.
Search for the string: absolute (for sourceTree param)
For each entry (file with a absolute path set), change absolute to group.
And change the path parameter to a relative path. example:
path = en.lproj/PilotInfoViewController.xib;
- Save the file and reopen xCode.
PS: Make a backup copy of your project file before doing this manipulation.
For some reason Xcode's Refactor is always disabled. I used to be able to activate it via selecting a class name and right clicking in the editor to select it. But now no matter what I do, it remains disabled. Any idea what's going on?
Working with Xcode 5, I kept getting "Can't refactor during indexing" when trying to refactor. Rebuilding the index seemed to hang at "Indexing - Waiting for make" forever.
I then noticed that make was already used by another process on my machine (not by Xcode). Shutting this process down enabled Xcode to finally finish indexing
Your project's index might be out of date/corrupt. In the General tab of the Project Settings window, click Rebuild Code Index and wait until it's done.
You can check the progress of the rebuild in the Activity window (Window > Activity).
I just ran into a similar problem in Xcode. I could not refactor anything in the class's .m (implementation file). The only explanation I could come up with is that it was not indexing the file for some reason, and I could not force it to reindex. The only hack that I found that worked was to copy the file to temporary location, remove it from my Xcode project, copy the file from the temp location back to my project's location, and then re-add the file via Xcode.
None of these suggestions work for Xcode 3.2 - the ONLY way is to select the file you want to rename in the left Groups & Files column. THEN highlight the name of the .m or .h in the right code view, then you can right click and select Refactor!
For instance if you're changing the DetailViewController name, highlight the actual DetailViewController.h word in code.
Note, you should also always make sure you've selected the .h file, not the .m
I faced the same thing in Xcode 11. and this worked for me:
I changed iPhone 8 simulator to generic iOS Device and it worked when it is on Generic
I'm new in iOS development,I have met this similar problem.
Xcode:Version 7.1 (7B91b),it looks like Refactor not working:
But when I put my mouse on the red circle point in the following picture，and then the Refactor working.
I think this is a low level mistake,but may be a reference for someone.