Question

I’d like to develop for iOS5 and have a storyboard…
I’ve just created UIView with UIViewController on the storyboard.
I have added a lot of other UIButtons and labels and creates outlets to VC.

I would like to use this view with it’s viewcontroller 3 times on a single parent view.
How is it possible? I dont want to copy “a lot of other UIButtons and labels” …

Maybe i should create this view out of storyboard in separate XIB? How will i use XIB in storyboard?

UPDATE:

Thanx you, Juzzz – your solution works perfect:

Answer 1

You have to create 2 custom viewControllers (one for each view in your story board.
example:

@interface GraphCollectionViewController : UIViewController

@interface GraphViewController : UIViewController

To connect them you can use something called: UIViewController containment

For your GraphCollectionViewController create 3 outlets for your UIViews. Then create 3 properties of GraphViewController’s (or an array, what you want) and initialize them in the view did load.

@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIView *topView;
@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIView *middleView;
@property (strong, nonatomic) IBOutlet UIView *bottomView;

@property (strong, nonatomic) GraphViewController *topGraphViewController;
@property (strong, nonatomic) GraphViewController *middleGraphViewController;
@property (strong, nonatomic) GraphViewController *bottomGraphViewController;

...

//top graph
    self.topGraphViewController = [storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"GraphViewController"]; //init with view from storyboard
    self.topGraphViewController.view.frame = self.topView.bounds; //set frame the same

    [self.view addSubview:self.topGraphViewController.view];
    [self addChildViewController:self.topGraphViewController];
    [self.topGraphViewController didMoveToParentViewController:self];

//middle graph
    self.middleGraphViewController = [storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"GraphViewController"]; //init with view from storyboard
    self.middleGraphViewController.view.frame = self.middleView.bounds; //set frame the same

    [self.view addSubview:self.middleGraphViewController.view];
    [self addChildViewController:self.middleGraphViewController];
    [self.middleGraphViewController didMoveToParentViewController:self];

//bottom graph
    self.bottomGraphViewController = [storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"GraphViewController"]; //init with view from storyboard
    self.bottomGraphViewController.view.frame = self.bottomView.bounds; //set frame the same

    [self.view addSubview:self.bottomGraphViewController.view];
    [self addChildViewController:self.bottomGraphViewController];
    [self.bottomGraphViewController didMoveToParentViewController:self];

I think you get the point. For more understanding this example .