https://github.com/cbess/viewintrospector

Visual Debugging Tool for the iOS Simulator. A view hierarchy viewer desktop app for CBIntrospect.
https://github.com/cbess/viewintrospector

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Visual Debugging Tool for the iOS Simulator. A view hierarchy viewer desktop app for CBIntrospect.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cbess/viewintrospector
• Owner: cbess
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2013-01-11T23:47:31.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2013-11-19T06:19:07.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-14T15:44:22.122Z (7 months ago)
• Language: Objective-C
• Homepage:
• Size: 5.72 MB
• Stars: 49
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 6
• Open Issues: 6
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: readme.md
  • License: license.txt

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View Introspector

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![app icon](https://github.com/cbess/ViewIntrospector/raw/master/CBIntrospector/appicon.png)

[Download View Introspector](http://goo.gl/eWtrr)

[CBIntrospector iOS lib](https://github.com/cbess/CBIntrospector/)

View Introspector is a desktop app for the iOS Simulator that aid in debugging user interfaces built with UIKit. It's especially useful for UI layouts that are dynamically created or can change during runtime.

![Main Window Screenshot](https://github.com/cbess/ViewIntrospector/raw/master/main-window-screenshot.jpg)

![View Introspector Screenshot](https://github.com/cbess/ViewIntrospector/raw/master/cbintrospector-screenshot.jpg)

[CBIntrospector iOS lib](https://github.com/cbess/CBIntrospector/)

[Download View Introspector](http://goo.gl/eWtrr)

It uses keyboard shortcuts to handle starting, ending and other commands.  It can also be invoked via an app-wide `UIGestureRecognizer` if it is to be used on the device.

Features:

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* Simple to setup and use

* See the entire hierarchy (view tree) of the window

* Send messages (call any method) to the selected view during runtime

* Displays a views origin & size, including distances to edges of main window

* Displays properties of a view, including subclass properties, actions and targets (see below for an example)

* Displays accessibility properties — useful for UI automation scripts

* Move and resize view frames during runtime

* Highlighting of view frames

[CBIntrospector Demo App](https://github.com/cbess/CBIntrospector/)

View Introspector Usage

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* Download desktop app - [View Introspector](http://goo.gl/eWtrr)

* Start your app

* Start `View Introspector` desktop app

* Install [CBIntrospector](https://github.com/cbess/CBIntrospector/) iOS lib

* Start debugging target iOS project

* In the iOS simulator, press `space` key to activate the introspect tool

* Back in the View Introspector, click `Reload` to load the projects

* Select the project to open from `View Introspector` project window (Menu->Window->Show Projects)

* Interact with `View Introspector` UIView tree to select or adjust the UIView in the iOS Simulator

* (More documentation coming soon)

Before you start, make sure the `DEBUG` environment variable is set. CBIntrospect will not run without that set to prevent it being left in for production use.

Provide custom name of view:

    - (void)viewDidLoad

    {

        [super viewDidLoad];

        // provide custom names for use by the View Introspector desktop app and console output

    	[[CBIntrospect sharedIntrospector] setName:@"myActivityIndicator" forObject:self.activityIndicator accessedWithSelf:YES];

        [[CBIntrospect sharedIntrospector] setNameForViewController:self];

    }

    

License

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Made available under the GPL v3 license.