iPhone — is it possible to inspect the frame of a UIView in the Xcode debugger?

Question

When the debugger is stopped at a breakpoint, I can\'t find the frame of any of my UIViews in there.

Is it possible to do this?

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Answer 1

To get a the frame information similar to the debugger as an NSString, use NSStringFromCGRect(someView.frame)

Answer 2

NSLog(@"My view frame: %@", NSStringFromCGRect(myView.frame));

Answer 3

Yes, you can do it. While debugging, find the UIView of interest in the variable inspector. Control-click on it and select "Print Description to Console". For example, I did this on the _view ivar of a UIViewController and the following appeared in the console:

Printing description of _view:
<UIView: 0x25b460; frame = (0 0; 320 480); autoresize = W+H; layer = <CALayer: 0x26b740>>

Answer 4

Interestingly, using the getter method to return the view's frame works:

print (CGRect)[view frame]

This gives the expected result:

(CGRect) $2 = origin=(x=0, y=20) size=(width=320, height=48)

But if you try to use dot notation, which I hear so often referred to as being provided simply for 'syntactic sugar':

print (CGRect)view.frame

You get the following error:

error: C-style cast from '<unknown type>' to 'CGRect' is not allowed

Answer 5

If you go to the debugger panel, you can type this in while you are at a breakpoint:

(gdb) print (CGRect) [self frame]
$1 = {
  origin = {
    x = 0, 
    y = 0
  }, 
  size = {
    width = 100, 
    height = 100
  }
}

When using the console debugger you can press the up arrow key to cycle through previous commands. Pressing return without entering a command repeats the last command.

Answer 6

In XCode 5.1.1, you can hover over a variable that is a UIView and you will see the following type of popover:

If you click on the 'i' button, the following type of output will be printed in the debugger's console:

<UIImageView: 0xa49ca90; frame = (0 0; 640 360); opaque = NO; userInteractionEnabled = NO; layer = <CALayer: 0xa46c1c0>>

This is another way of inspecting the frame of a UIView.