i'm trying to do this from inside the .m of a custom view class that is not being loaded from the XIB, but rather programmatically:
- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame
{
self = [super initWithFrame:frame];
if (self) {
// Initialization code
self.backgroundColor=[UIColor redcolor];
}
return self;
}
i have the same result whether i put the background color in the initWithFrame or other methods. the background color property doesn't take. from the controller, which owns this custom view, i can set the background color fine, with:
self.mycustomview.backgroundColor=[UIColor redcolor];
But I'd like to do this from within the custom view itself, keep stuff like this independent. both the controller and the custom view import UIKit.
I also tried this, which was available from Code Sense:
self.View.backgroundColor=[UIColor redcolor];
but that doesn't work either. i tried both view
and View
here. I'm sure I'm overlooking something very obvious.
in the view controller i have this, and it works fine. the custom view is called "mapButtons.h":
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
CGRect frame=CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 460);
self.mapButtons=[[mapButtons alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
self.mapButtons.backgroundColor=[UIColor redColor];
[self.view addSubview:self.mapButtons];
the .h of the custom view is this:
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
@interface mapButtons : UIView
Best Answer
If your view is getting created from a XIB (i.e. you added it to some other view using Interface Builder),
-initWithFrame:
is not going to get called. An object being loaded from a XIB receives-initWithCoder:
instead. Try this: