Question

I am trying to load text into a textview. This seems simple enough:

box.text = @"hello";
NSLog(@"Box.text contains: %@", box.text);

The problem is that this NSLog just keeps printing null.
(I have IBOutlet UITextView *box declared.) I imagine that since box.text is null, that’s why nothing is actually showing up in the UITextView either.

Anyone know what’s going wrong?

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

If you’re calling box.text from your controller’s init method, your IBOutlet hasn’t been loaded from the nib file yet – so box is still pointing to nil, and the text assignment is going nowhere. You’ll need to wait until viewDidLoad or later to successfully access the properties of your IBOutlet.