Resize of UIViewController in storyboard

Question

I want to resize a UIViewController in the storyboard so I can use its UIViewController as a popover view.

On most sites I can read that the actions are:

But in my iOS 5.1 this does not work, even with a new project with only one UIViewController. What did I forget in the procedure?

score 45 · Accepted Answer · edited May 21 '16 at 12:58

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We follow the following steps to achieve the same:

Drag a UIViewController (this takes a UIView along with it, so no need to add another UIView unless you need more)
Select UIViewController on StoryBoard and set size property to Freeform
Select the UIView and set the height and width values.

If this doesn't help, you might want to delete the UIView that comes with the UIViewController, add a fresh UIView and repeat #2, and #3 above.

edited May 21 '16 at 12:58

Alex Nolasco

answered Apr 15 '12 at 21:39

danfelabs

For those who want more detail - you set the size in the Size Inspector. – ari gold Dec 08 '12 at 22:07
Thanks! I remembered something along those lines and when I saw "Freeform" today in a XIB (where you can actually drag...) I was "WOW. Cool". Too bad it's so cumbersome in a Storyboard, but oh well :) – StuFF mc Mar 09 '13 at 16:35
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This worked for me, but I found I also needed to change the "Resize View From NIB" property to false. (It's in the View Controller's Layout Property section of the Attributes Inspector.) Otherwise the controller decided to go full screen. – Erik Allen Jan 16 '14 at 18:39
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Here did not work. Still the UIViewController is loaded at fullscreen and not 1024x693 as this is the size I want on the iPad. – Marco Almeida Nov 01 '14 at 19:11
I did exactly as you told but when I press the button to bring it forward the full view comes. How do I fix it? – Anirudha Mahale Aug 11 '16 at 11:10

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 11 '15 at 10:10

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2 .Select UIViewController on StoryBoard and set size property to Freeform

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select UIViewController on storyboard Enable user preferred explicit size in Content size in attributes inspector

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answered Jun 11 '15 at 10:10

Muralikrishna

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 10 '16 at 03:26

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You need to take off "Resize View from NIB" in IB attributes tab.

answered Jan 10 '16 at 03:26

Dapeng

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