Preserve position when moving UIView in hierarchy (paste-in-place)

Question

in Xcode 4 IB is there a way to move a bunch of subviews from one superview to another without destroying their current layout?

This should be super easy, but when

Answer 1

I had the same problem as OP, but I found a great solution on another thread. Answer by Jay: https://stackoverflow.com/a/16952902/2070758

Basically, you can't copy/paste directly, but you can with some extra steps:

1. Select all views, labels etc, you want to move to the new super view
2. Editor -> embed in view
3. Move the newly created "container" view to the view you wanted to paste to originally
4. Select the "container" view. Editor -> unembed. All the elements will be dumped into the super view, maintaining the layout.

Answer 2

Was looking for the solution to the same annoying limitation in xCode... found a trick:

• Create a new UIViewController in IB
• Paste all your stuff in its root view, the positions should be preserved
• Copy and paste this root view where ever you need it,

worked for me but geeesh what a pain.