Question

I’m trying to make an iPhone app here, and I’ve gotten it down to a simple HelloWorld problem. For some reason, the following does not work in XCode 4.4. I’d really appreciate figuring out what’s going on.

I follow these steps:

1. Start an ’empty project’ type
2. Name it
3. Add in a new objective-c class with a .xib. Say this new view controller is StartViewController, so I now have StartViewController .xib, .h, and .m.
4. Check: file’s owner for the .xib matches the .h file. It does in IB.
5. Change the background of the .xib to something other than black (I like stripes).
6. Add these lines to the main app delegate:

import “StartViewController.h”

 - (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
 {
   self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];
   StartViewController* theController = [[StartViewController alloc]init];
   [self.window addSubview:theController.view];
   [self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
   return YES;
 }

And the app immediately crashes on running with:

* Terminating app due to uncaught exception ‘NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: '-[UIViewController _loadViewFromNibNamed:bundle:] loaded the “StartView” nib but the view outlet was not set.’

How can I make it work?

EDIT: PS, I have no idea why the code formatting appears to have failed. I was under the impression that it was just four spaces at the beginning of a line…

Answer 1

I’m answering this because it’s so ludicrous.

Turns out that order matters.

I deleted the old controlling files, and then added ‘startingviewcontroller’, edited the appdelegate function to be startingviewcontroller, then it all works. Not sure why that should matter, but hey.