How to bring back the full Xcode 4 interface?

Question

This is crazy! I opened two separate editor windows by double-clicking in the files navigator. Then I closed Xcode.

Now, every time I open my project Xcode is completely gone. All I get are these two separate editor windows. I tried everything to get Xcode back, but when I open this particular project there is no Xcode interface - just the two lightweight editor windows.

Did anyone else encounter this problem? Is there anything else I can do, other than creating a blank new project from scratch and copying everything over?

Answer 1

There's no such thing as a "lightweight editor window" in Xcode 4. What you're seeing is a window that has the toolbar, tab bar, navigator pane, and utilities pane all hidden. You can show them again from the View menu.

To bring back everything:

1. View->Show Toolbar
2. View->Show Tab Bar
3. View->Navigators->Show Navigator
4. View->Utilities->Show Utilities

The last two can also be done from buttons on the toolbar.

Depending on what you expect the window to look like, you may also need to use View->Debug Area->Show Debug Area.