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Alan
Alan

Reputation: 9471

Moving objects that are behind other objects in Storyboard

I often stack objects in IB/Storyboard it's almost impossible to drag objects that are behind other objects without moving the objects in front. Is there anyway I can move the objects that are already selected but are behind other objects? It always selects the object that's at the top when I try to move it or do I have to bring it to the front and move it and then send it back to the back?

Thanks! Alan

Upvotes: 13

Views: 9095

Answers (3)

user3069232
user3069232

Reputation: 8995

You could also change the order of the objects, depending on your design... might be a solution. See SO here.

How to send objects in NIB files to front/back?

Upvotes: 0

laoyur
laoyur

Reputation: 707

Still no enough reputations to add comment, so I have to make a comment as an answer.

As @nvrtd mentioned, you can hold Ctrl + Shift and then click to show controls selection popup.

but as @David said, in that way you can only select rather than drag/move using mouse:

That doesn't work for me. I can select it, but can't move it.

my solution:

  1. select the control first
  2. move the control with keyboard arrow keys

Upvotes: 8

nvrtd frst
nvrtd frst

Reputation: 6322

Control + Shift + Click on an object in Interface Builder to see a menu of all of the objects under the mouse.

From: https://stackoverflow.com/a/934152/1374512

Upvotes: 14

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