How do I get my subclass of UIView to appear in Interface Builder?

Question

I'm trying to share as much code between my common UIViews as possible by subclassing UIView.

Is there a way to make this UIView accessable in Interface Builder?

What's the best way to reuse hand-coded UIViews in Cocoa?

Answer 1

Add a normal UIView to your window/view in interface builder and in the Identity Inspector, change the name of the class to your UIView subclass.

Answer 2

If you want to make your custom views available in interface builder permanently, you could create a plugin for interface builder.

See here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/494520/how-do-you-display-custom-uiviews-in-interfacebuilder