Question

The idea basically is:
Inside of myViewController NIB I have a UIView as a subview, with connections to an IBOutlet on MyViewController class. I want to load the UIView subview from a NIB also. The subView also has a class associated with it. But the subview is not showing. Here is what I do

on MyViewController.h

@interface MyViewController : UIViewController {
    IBOutlet SubView *subView;     // this outlet is connected to an empty UIView on IB
}
@end

on MyViewController.m

-(id)init {
    if ((self = [super init])) {
        // load the main view 
        [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"myViewController" owner:self options:nil];
        // load the sub view from another NIB
        self.subView = [[[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"subView" owner:self options:nil] objectAtIndex:0];
    }
}

the SubView.h is defined as:

@interface SubView : UIView {
}
@end

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

GianPac – shameless self-promotion, but I did a blog post about this about a month ago. Feel free to ignore the drop-shadow related code.

http://nathanhjones.com/2011/02/20/creating-reusable-uiviews-with-a-drop-shadow-tutorial/

Also, I (thanks to advice from several people) avoid ever having more than one view controller on my ‘view’. The method I outline above allows you to accomplish this and still use IB to do the layout/outlets.