Question

I have a custom view which contains two UILabel. I want to customize their fonts before so I did that in initWithCoder method.

@implementation HomeTitleView
@synthesize ticketLabel;
@synthesize monthLabel;

- (id) initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)aDecoder{
    self = [super initWithCoder:aDecoder];
    if (self) {
        [monthLabel setFont:[UIFactory getFontForKey:@"home_month"]];
        [ticketLabel setFont:[UIFactory getFontForKey:@"home_ticket"]];
    }
    return self;
}

@end

Unluckily, this did not work. Using a debugger, I found that monthLabel and ticketLabel are both nil. Anyone has idea how can I solve this? What callback or method I should implement so that I can access both of my labels?

Answer 1

You can’t do that. The views don’t exist yet. They are instantiated when the loadView method is called, which happens automatically when the view property is first accessed. If you want to manipulate your views after they have loaded, the correct method to use is viewDidLoad.

Edit: That’s assuming you are working with a UIViewController class. If you are working with a UIView class, you can use awakeFromNib or didAddSubview:.