Question

I have designed a nice custom control CustomUIView as a subclass of UIview, with a nice initialiser that takes in 8 parameters. I made it to be the designated initializer to make sure, any user will provide all the 8 parameters correctly.
After few days, I wanted to reuse that control in a different project where nibs are used.
I added a basic UIView into the canvas of one of the NIBs and changed The Custom class option to my CustomUIView class. But I immediately realised my nice initializer is of no use, since it is not called at all.

What would you recommend to do about this? I want to ensure that

1. all the parameters are taken in but at the same time
2. I want basic positioning of that custom control in IB.

Answer 1

Why not build on top of the standard UIViewController initializer for NIBs then?

- (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibName bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundle parameter1:(id)param1...
    NSAssert(param1 != nil && param2 != nil ...);
    if (self = [super initWithNibName:nibName bundle:nibBundle]) {
        //Custom initializations here.
    }
    return self;
}