Possible to initialize an entire UITableViewController (or subclass) from a secondary NIB... not just a UIView?

Nearly all the UINavigationController examples out there show the use of initWithNibName:bundle: to load a NIB containing NOT an entire UIViewController (or subclass) but just a UIView, with the NIB's File's Owner Class property set to UIViewController (or the appropriate subclass) and its view outlet pointed at the UIView.

Why is this? Why can you not instantiate a full UIViewController (in particular, a UITableViewController) from a secondary NIB? And why do you even need to set the view outlet in IB? I don't understand the point of creating a blank white view which is going to be entirely ignored by a UITableViewController anyway.

In the MainWindow NIB, you can do both of the things that you seemingly can't do from a secondary NIB. You can setup a UINavigationController, and then within that you can setup a UITableViewController (or subclass). And you don't need to create an entirely superflous UIView object - rather helpful, since the whole point (I thought!) of a UITableViewController is that it creates and manages an associated table view for you using its delegate methods.

What is going on here? Am I being stupid? Is there some other way of doing what I want to? Or is there some logical reason for things being the way they are?

Hey zaph. It is easy enough to do as you suggest, but a lot more difficult (for me at least) to then make use of the resulting NIB file.Specifically, when I run the following line of code...UITableViewController *mySecondaryTableViewController = [[UITableViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"SecondaryTableViewController" bundle:nil];...I get the following error in the console:'-[UIViewController _loadViewFromNibNamed:bundle:] loaded the "SecondaryTableViewController" nib but the view outlet was not set.'

kennethmac2000 2009-10-04 21:07:23

initWithNibName:bundle: expects a NIB containing a UIView. I don't want to create a NIB with a UIView though, since my controller is a UITableViewController which will create a UITableView itself.So how do I actually turn the NIB file containing a Table View Controller (as you suggested I create) into a programatically addressable UITableViewController?

kennethmac2000 2009-10-04 21:09:11

EX: [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"LapC" owner:self options:nil];

zaph 2009-10-05 02:21:10

Thank you, thank you, thank you. :)

kennethmac2000 2009-10-05 10:05:39

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