Since “upgrading” to XCode6 I’ve had issues with storyboard based UI’s that used to work, but now suddenly starts acting really weird – table cells that scale to double size of the containing table, and buttons that don’t react to input because their parent (non clipping) views are cut in half.
Everything looks fine and dandy in XCode, but breaks horribly when running the app on both iOS7 and 8 and both on real devices and in the simulator.
In two cases I tracked the problem down to missing or incorrectly updated view rects – if you open the storyboard in a text editor (or rename it to .xml and open it in XCode or, even better, AppCode) and locate the view that’s causing problems, there’s a good chance you’ll see a rect with incorrect dimensions or simply won’t see any rects at all.
The structure should be:
... <view key="view" contentMode="scaleToFill" id="xMb-eO-e2t"> <rect key="frame" x="0.0" y="0.0" width="320" height="504"/> <autoresizingMask key="autoresizingMask" flexibleMaxX="YES" flexibleMaxY="YES"/> <subviews> ...
I.e. a <rect> before the <autoresizemask>.
Correcting or inserting the rect fixes the problems and should be ok as long as you don’t do something silly like, say, edit the storyboard in XCode6’s storyboard editor.
But it’s ok. I understand that Apple, with its limited resources, can’t fix every single little insignificant corner-case in XCode when they need to focus their energy on inventing important new and productive programming languages. //sarcasm…
May I just humbly suggest that they got their priorities ass-backwards?
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