Xcode 5 Toolbar Buttons Not Working

Question

I'm having an issue after installing Xcode 5. The toolbar buttons to show/hide the Assistant Editor and the Version Editor are not working. They don't respond at all; I have to access those functions from the menu.

Also, the buttons to show/hide the navigation, debug and utilities pane are not working. The tool tips work, they just don't respond to clicks.

Anyone else having this issue?

I get OS X 10.8.5 and XCode 5.0. I made upgrade from Xcode 4.6 and I never installed any beta version.

Answer 1

@yhlin and @benoit have partially reason.

The problem appear after you receive a error message when you open the Storyboard (Storyboard Internal Inconsistencies), then I opened the storyboard file (via TextEdit) and then the toolbar does not work, but, after a restart the Xcode (or even the Mac completely) works everything fine again.

I believe is a minor bug in the XCode 5.0. or an upgrade issue, but apparently is not a big thing.

UPDATE *** After installing Mavericks and Xcode 5.0.1 the problem was fixed.

Answer 2

This has been happening to me after every reboot since upgrading to Xcode 5.

The workaround I have been using is:

1. Close the project but leave Xcode open.

2. Open another project.

3. Close it.

4. Reopen the original project - inactive toolbar buttons should now be active.

Answer 3

I'm having the same issue. Until Apple addresses it I'll just be using keyboard shortcuts (option+command+return to show assistant editor, command+return to show standard editor). Maybe I'll just abandon the toolbar buttons altogether. :)

Answer 4

I was having the same issues even after upgrading to Mavericks and Xcode 5.0.1. This problem as well as other project crippling bugs in the new release of Xcode (5.0) can be temporarily worked-around by restarting Xcode, opening a different project, closing that project then opening the project you wanted to work with. Sorry for the crude fix but it works for me so I thought I'd share.

NOTE: This won't fix the IOKit.framework error, the best fix for that is going into terminal and performing the following commands:

cd/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS7.0.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework sudo ln -s Versions/A/IOKit

Answer 5

Just providing input to this topic. I had this problem and none of the above solutions were helping, turns out a tap gesture recognizer I had over the toolbar was disabling all the buttons on the toolbar.

Answer 6

I just ran into this problem. I have OS 10.10 Yosemite Beta and Xcode 5.1.1

For me, none of the previous answers helped me. The issue fix for me was to take xcode out of full screen mode. If it's in full screen mode it will not work, but as soon as I take it out of full screen, it works just fine.