I see no settings at all under Size Inspector in Interface Builder, it is completely blank for my View, all labels and all buttons. I am using xcode 4.6 and have 'Use Autolayout' unchecked and the metrics (Size, Status Bar, Top Bar, Bottom Bar) are all 'None'. I need to be able to control the autoresizingmask, but why can't I see any size properties?
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If you click on an element, then click the inspector, it should show up. But your element needs to be selected.
– Douglas
Thanks Douglas, but it was even more lame than that....I just couldn't tell the group was collapsed.
– user2026489
Too funny, glad it worked out for you. Welcome to SO.
– Douglas
Thank you, you should submit this answer and accept it. This has been driving me nuts all week, I did not notice it was collapsible and sometimes XCode automatically collapsed it I was quitting and restarting XCode to get it visible again.
– Martin Belcher - AtWrk
If it makes you feel any better, I had the exact same problem. The group was collapsed...
– Tony Arkles
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Once you switch to Size Inspector tab, directly under the icon there is a little header that says "View." If you hover over that some text appears that says "Show," because apparently that section can collapse down. Clicking the header should cause the options you expect to appear.
I wish they would make this more clear, because I completely missed it as well, and restarted Xcode several times.
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I ran into this problem using Xcode 5.0 but upon further investigation, discovered the dysfunction ran to a higher degree - all Inspector views in Xcode were blank for every control, and the Navigator buttons didn't work either.
The culprit seems to have been a conflict in versioning. When I re-checked out trunk, Xcode returned to expected behavior.
