Question

I am stuck trying to set and retrieve the text in a UITextField object on titleViewController.

I have a Journal object that has a reference to the titleViewController object, but I can not seem to set the text value for the UITextField.

I have an outlet to the UITextField object in the titleViewController, and Journal can see it, but when I write to code to set the value nothing happens when it is run.

There is no errors that pop up in XCode or the Log. I know it should work as the set up works for accessing custom methods in other such viewControllers being managed by the same Journal.

-EDIT-

Here is a code sample as requested:

//Get viewController from Array
TitleVC *titlePage = [_PageArray objectAtIndex:0];

//Get string from Dictionary
NSString *test = [_saveDictionary objectForKey:@"Name"];

//This is one of the attempts to set the UITextField 
//FIXED by Tomy211(but still does not work)
[titlePage.textName setText:test];

//This is attempting dot notation
titlePage.textName.text = test
titlePage.textName = test //Wrong I know but had to test

//Also made sure test was a proper string
NSLog(test) //Displayed "Dan" as Expected

This is in Journal.m which accessed a reference to the titleVC from a storyboard using this code:

-(UIViewController *)loadView:(NSString *)viewID{
    UIStoryboard *storyboard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"MainStoryboard" bundle:nil];
    UIViewController *viewController = [storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:viewID];
    return viewController;
}

The ViewController returned from that method is used in displaying the View in a scrollview, and I havent had an issue with accessing methods from the ViewControllers this way.

All I want to do is let Journal.m set and read the value from textName which is an outlet connected to a UITextField.

-UPDATE-

I checked and discovered I can read the value of the textField but not write to it.

-FINAL UPDATE-

I found the issue with my code. The code was correct(minus the correction by Tomy211), but the issue was where I was calling the code. I was calling the method before the view was displayed, so when the view did get displayed it revert back to the default values.

Note to all that have similar issues:
Check to make sure the view is being displayed before updating a value of a UIObject part of the view. If you have to update values with the view not displayed, use instance variables and have the UIObject get their values from them on the viewDidLoad method.

Answer 1

The problem was I tried to update the TextField objects before the view has been loaded.
Moving the method call to after the point I load the view fixes the problem. I have updated my question to reflect what was correct, and what was incorrect.

Note to all that have similar issues: Check to make sure the view is being displayed before updating a value of a UIObject part of the view. If you have to update values with the view not displayed, use instance variables and have the UIObject get their values from them on the viewDidLoad method.