Question

My search View controller searchVC has a UIImageView* backgroundImage
I would like to set backgroundImage to be my view’s image.
Why does this code not work ?

[searchVC.backgroundImage initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"someimage.png"]];
[searchVC.view addSubview:searchVC.backgroundImage];

Answer 1

I think it should be:

//If backgroundImage is not created yet, create it.
searchVC.backgroundImage = [[[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"someimage.png"]] autorelease];

// If it is already created then you should just set the image
searchVC.backgroundImage.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"someimage.png"];

[searchVC.view addSubview:searchVC.backgroundImage];