Question

So, I have a view that is being serialized and stored in a file. Within that view, is n subclassed UILabels, with the only difference being a live property. I have the initwithcoder and encodewithcoder within the UILabel subclass, but I am still unable to get the custom variable within the label. I have included my subclass’ methods and the below. Any help is appreciated.

Custom UILabel:

- (id) initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)decoder
{
    self = [super initWithCoder:decoder];

    if (self != nil) {
        self.live = [decoder decodeBoolForKey:@"live"];
    }
    return self;
}

-(void)encodeWithCoder:(NSCoder *)aCoder {
    [aCoder encodeBool:self.live forKey:@"live"];
}

Because I am only unarchiving the view, which contains the labels within, I assume that ios does not unarchive the custom labels?

Thanks

Answer 1

You are missing a call to [super encodeWithCoder:aCoder]. This will result in an incorrectly serialised object, I’m not sure what the consequences are, but you seem to have found one of them!