@IBDesignable error: IB Designables: Failed to update auto layout status: Interface Builder Cocoa Touch Tool crashed

Question

I have a very simple subclass of UITextView that adds the "Placeholder" functionality that you can find native to the Text Field object. Here is my code for the su

Answer 1

For Xcode 8 - Swift

Adding optional value as default value on @IBInspectable causing issue for me.

This won't work:

@IBInspectable var repeatImage: UIImage = UIImage(named:"myImage")!{
      didSet {
       // configureView
      }
}

This should work:

@IBInspectable var repeatImage: UIImage = RepeatImageView.getDefaultImage() {
    didSet {
        // configureView()
    }
}

class func getDefaultImage() -> UIImage {
    if let defaultImage = UIImage(named: "myImage") {
        return defaultImage
    } else {
        return UIImage()
    }
}