Can't drag and drop item from storyboard to vi

Question

I started working with xcode a few days ago, and today I tried to connect a textview from the main storyboard to the viewcontroller, but I figured out that its not working.

I am able to ctrl+click to drag the item, but unable to place it in both viewcontroller.h and .m. I double checked that its viewcontroller and not UIViewcontroller, so this is not the case.

I'm using a Yosemite 10.10 mac.

Any kind of help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

For beginners -- > make sure you have kept the "Ctrl" key pressed down while dragging and dropping onto the code. This can be easily missed.

Answer 2

For me, the solution was to click on the "View" item in the dropdown menu that shows all the subviews for the controller.

Simply clicking on the controller image on the storyboard does not appear to properly "select" the controller for drag and drop abilities, the base view must be selected.

Answer 3

Note that dragging to any point in your code doesn't necessarily work. If you've been unable to drag to create the connection in one spot of your code, try dragging to another spot. For me, I was trying to drag to add a connection in the middle of a function which didn't work. Dragging to the beginning line of a function or in between functions did work.

Note: I'm on Xcode 9.1

Answer 4

Make sure that the item in question is connected to the file in which you want to control drag it to (specify the class in the identity inspector)

Answer 5

Check that the names on Viewcontroller identity inspector and the .h, .m files are the same. That worked for me

Answer 6

Select the ViewController in storyboard and change the name of the ViewController to the name in the .h or .m file and then try ctrl+click and drag