Question

I am in the process of developing an IOS rpg. This game is a controlled by a tab bar, and every view controller in the tab bar will have a common “header” that sits at the top of the screen and shows information about the player.

The rest of the screen, however, will show one of many different views. Each view controller will be responsible for showing multiple different “views” underneath the “header” view. In addition, many of these views will need to be scrollable, as they will not fit in the confines of the screen.

Questions:

1)How do you add two views from separate nibs to a single view controller.

2)How do you embed only one of those views in a scroll view.

Thank you.

Answer 1

You can load a nib through the loadNibNamed:owner:options: function on a NSBundle. What it will return is an array of all the objects in the nib (the list you see on the left when you create a nib in interface builder). If you’re view is the first item on the list of objects in the nib, then its the object at the 0th index of that array.

NSArray *objects1 = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"View1Nib" owner:self options:nil];
UIView *customView1 = [objects1 objectAtIndex:0];

NSArray *objects2 = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"View2Nib" owner:self options:nil];
UIView *customView2 = [objects2 objectAtIndex:0];

UIScrollView *scroll = [[[UIScrollView alloc] init] autorelease];
[scroll addSubview:customView2];

[[self view] addSubview:customView1];
[[self view] addSubview:scroll];