Why can't I move iOS storyboard elements around?

Question

I am trying to work with storyboards in iOS, and it\'s driving me nuts because I can\'t drag storyboard elements around in the UI to clean up the visual structure of the relatio

Answer 1

After trying almost every remote screen implementation I could get my hands on, I've come to the same conclusion.

This also affects control-drag for connections. The workaround on ctrl-drag is to right click on an element and drag from the pop-up menu.

For dragging top-level elements, I have a spare mouse connected to the mac like you. But this fix isn't robust because if the mac (running VNC) doesn't have a monitor attached, the remote cursor does not seem to report itself to VNC clients correctly. Is this consistent with your findings, or does your mac have a monitor connected? Reboot with a monitor and I suspect your mac-mouse will not behave correctly through VNC. The fix here is to connect a monitor to the mac briefly, and then remote cursor reports itself correctly from that point onwards (until the next reboot).

Answer 2

I was using ShareMouse 3.0.35 for sharing mouse and keyboard between a PC and a MAC and when I turn it off, I can drag things around on the storyboard. Posting this to assist others. Of course, now I have to push my manual KVM which is a drag (pun intended)

Answer 3

I was facing this, I have a magic trackpad, and as it turns out if you point your mouse on the battery symbol in the storyboard and try to move them, you can do it very easily! :) (not sure if this is a known thing, just adding it here, if somebody has the same question since google's first hit is this one)

EDIT: Well you can just drag it around using the controller bar below the storyboard so this answer is a little late, but now there are two ways. :)

Answer 4

I'm using a Mac in a VMWare Virtual Machine through VNC from Windows, same problem. However, logging in to VSphere directly, and opening a console on the VM does let you move elements and control-drag.

This requires access to VSphere, though, which your System Administrator may be reluctant to provide.

Answer 5

I just bumped into the same issue, I was using Synergy v. 1.3.7 on Mac (Client) and Synergy v. 1.4.4 on Linux (Server).

I upgraded to Synergy 1.4.10 on both Mac and Linux and now everything works for me as expected.

Answer 6

As a partial solution when using Google remote desktop:

1. Drag a new item from the Object library. This is working normally until you drop the item. Afterwards you can't drag the item again.

2. Open the outline view. See picture at https://developer.apple.com/library/content/referencelibrary/GettingStarted/DevelopiOSAppsSwift/Art/2_outlineview_toggle_2x.png

Than drag the item from there. You can drag it and when dropped, the original item will be moved to the correct place. The problem with that is no help lines are presented in order to align the item and no accurate position can be done.

3. Use the Size inspector. See pic at https://koenig-media.raywenderlich.com/uploads/2015/11/46_vc_size-e1448290482977-421x320.png

From there you can set the correct size and position of the item.