Question

I’m new on this, and I would like to get some advice because I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.
I want to make an app in xcode, with a UIView with some items, and when you do something, another UIView (smaller than the first) pops up above the first UIView. The popup UIView would be a customized class.

I have started with the UIViewController template and the initial UIView, and I have linked all the items in the .storyboard, and it works. But when I create my own UIView class (from objective-C class), put the second UIView over the first in the storyboard and link it to my class, something goes wrong.

The UIView appears, but when I try to set it to hidden, it doesn’t answer. It’s like it’s not receiving the messages, so I think I don’t link it well programmatically and just appears because of the storyboard.

I don’t know if I have to create another UIViewController instead of the UIView, or if this is the correct path.

Can anybody explain me a little, or just write a little code snippet with the instantiation of the second view and adding it?

Lots of thanks!!

(I paste some code, of the declaration in .h and instantiation in .m)

     #import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
     #import "EditView.h"

    @interface ReleaseViewController : UIViewController <UIWebViewDelegate, UISearchBarDelegate> {

        IBOutlet UIWebView *web;
        IBOutlet UISearchBar *search;
        IBOutlet EditView *evHack;

    }

    @property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UIWebView *web;
    @property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UISearchBar *search;
    @property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet EditView *evHack;

    @end

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];

    search.delegate = self;
    web.delegate = self;

    evHack = [evHack initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 44, 320, 377)]; 
    [evHack setHidden:YES]; 

}

EditView Class (I still have nothing):

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface EditView : UIView

@end



#import "EditView.h"

@implementation EditView

- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame
{
    self = [super initWithFrame:frame];
    if (self) {
        NSLog(@"View created");
    }
    return self;
}

/*
// Only override drawRect: if you perform custom drawing.
// An empty implementation adversely affects performance during animation.
- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect
{
    // Drawing code
}
*/

@end

Answer 1

initWithFrame only works when you alloc/init an app. If its already initialized, in this case by the storyboard, just set its frame:

evHack.frame = CGRectMake(0,44, 320, 377);

I don’t know what it looks like in IB, But setting its frame in code may be redundant if you set it in IB too. To check whether evHack is hooked up right, NSLog evHack in viewDidLoad. If you get nil back, it’s not hooked up right.