How to load a nib from a customized UIView?

Question

I have a nib call "Hello.xib", and I have a HelloView that is inherit from the UIView, and I want to do the layout in the Hello.xib, and I want to allocate them to the HelloView.m / HelloView.h, how can I do so? Thank you.

Answer 1

In the interface builder's inspector for your Hello.xib's view, set the class of the view (in identity tab) to HelloView. I hope thats what you are looking for.

Answer 2

You normally do so on the outside. In HelloView you should have a UIViewController derived class. Then when initializing it on the outside you would call:

hello = [[HelloViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"Hello" bundle:nil];

The bundle:nil make Cocoa use the default bundle.

Answer 3

Just today I wrote a demonstration code, that also uses instantiation of custom view by loading a nib

• the controller has a member DetailContactHeaderView *headerView
• in the nib, I have a DetailContactHeaderView and the Files' owner type is my Controller
• the files' owner property headerView and the View get Connected

• in this controller I have this code

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

See my MyContacts for an implementation. FYI:

• DetailContactHeaderView
• DetailContactHeader.xib
• DetailContactViewController
  • especially -tableView:viewForHeaderInSection: