Question

I have a UIViewController with a XIB and want to add programmatically another subview.

During the initialization of the subview (initWithFrame) i want to set some attributes to values according to attributes that belong to another Object which holds data (actually a ViewControllers Child-Object, but not a view).

-(id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame {
    if (self = [super initWithFrame:frame]) {

        // The following is kind of what i want
        self.myAttribute = [self.viewController.otherObject otherValue]; 
    }
    return self;

}

I want to conform to the Model-View-Controller paradigm and try to seperate my data from the subview and don’t know how to access the data from within the subview.

Thanks in advance for any answers and comments how to improve the question.

EDIT: All three answers are useful for me to understand that my design is somehow the wrong way of doing the thing. As far as i understand the subview properties should be modified by the controller instead of trying the subview making to get the information. I will accept Jasons answer for his effort explaining this to me.

Answer 1

If you put this view in place using something like a UINavigationViewController you can use the parentViewController property. If not–and really, just in general–you can create properties that need to be set on your new view controller, and just set them in the parent or whoever else might create it.