Swift: Build succeeds, a blank app window and this message appear: Failed to set (contentViewController) user defined inspected property on (NSWindow)

Question

I tried to create a simple Complex Number Calculator using classes. My application has compiled successfully, but when I ran it, a blank window appeared instead of a window with all my buttons, labels etc. and I got this message in the output window:

2016-03-08 22:20:42.499 Complex Numbers[30404:2328250] Failed to set (contentViewController) user defined inspected property on (NSWindow): Cannot create BOOL from object <_NSControllerObjectProxy: 0x6000000022c0> of class _NSControllerObjectProxy

This is my ViewController class code. It involves a complexNumber class, which I didn't submit here:

class ViewController: NSViewController {

    @IBOutlet var Screen: NSView!
    var a = complexNumber();

    @IBOutlet var realValue: NSTextField!

    @IBOutlet var imaginaryValue: NSTextField!

    @IBOutlet var resultLabel: NSTextField!

    @IBAction func lengthResult(sender: AnyObject) {

        let r = NSString(string: realValue.stringValue).doubleValue;
        let i = NSString(string: imaginaryValue.stringValue).doubleValue;

        a = complexNumber(real: r, imaginary: i);
        resultLabel.stringValue = String(a.trigonometric());
    }

    @IBAction func trigonometryResult(sender: AnyObject) {
        let r = NSString(string: realValue.stringValue).doubleValue;
        let i = NSString(string: imaginaryValue.stringValue).doubleValue;

        a = complexNumber(real: r, imaginary: i);
        resultLabel.stringValue = String(a.length());  
    }

    @IBAction func operation(sender: AnyObject) {
        a = complexNumber(real: NSString(string: realValue.stringValue).doubleValue, imaginary: NSString(string: imaginaryValue.stringValue).doubleValue);
        realValue.stringValue = ""
        imaginaryValue.stringValue = "";

        let b = complexNumber(real: NSString(string: realValue.stringValue).doubleValue, imaginary: NSString(string: imaginaryValue.stringValue).doubleValue)

        switch sender.stringValue {
            case "+": a = a.sum(b)
            case "-": a = a.dif(b)
            case "x": a = a.mul(b)
            case ":": a = a.div(b)
            default: a = a.sum(complexNumber())
        }
    }

    @IBAction func displayResult(sender: AnyObject) {
        resultLabel.stringValue = String("\(a.real) + i*\(a.imaginary)");
    }

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        // Do any additional setup after loading the view.
    }

    override var representedObject: AnyObject? {
        didSet {
        // Update the view, if already loaded.
        }
    }   
}

I found a similar thread here, but I don't think it's what I was looking for.

Can you help me, please?

Answer 1

Another reason - when you setup wrong binding. Example of my error:

Failed to set (contentViewController) user defined inspected property on (NSWindow): [<NSProgressIndicator 0x10111b890> valueForUndefinedKey:]: this class is not key value coding-compliant for the key Enabled.

To solve this you need to delete the binding here:

Answer 2

For me was a timing issue I guess. All begins after I added an SFAuthorizationView some days ago, and I discovered that thanks to a bug report, where also was clear that this is happening on older OSes like Sierra, but it is fine, instead, in 10.13+. Moving some code from viewDidLoad() to viewDidAppear() the problem gone. Basically I'm just waiting to call any related method of the problematic view later the viewcontroller content view is declared as loaded. Clearly a an Apple problem fixed in new OSes. So after instantiate the nib/xib/storyboard involved I think anyone encounter problems like that should firstly show the view and then customise it. Just my testimony.

Answer 3

I had this problem and figured it out.

In my view I had a user defined property (if you look at the top of your view where you have view controller and first responder you should see it's icon next to it).

Simply delete it and run your application.

Hope this helps!