Can you elaborate a bit more about using initWithCoder: instead of awakeAfterUsingCoder:

[DavydLiu]

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Hi Yang,

I was reading your blog post (http://blog.yangmeyer.de/blog/2012/07/09/an-update-on-nested-nib-loading/) about an update regarding nested nibs.

There is an update on 2013-03-10 says there is a better way to do this by using initWithCoder:. I am curious how to actually implement it; can you explain it in details?

Thanks!

[yangmeyer]

Hej,

Basically the idea is that you load the view from a Nib and add it as a subview to yourself. As my blog post says:

YMCalendarSheet code: In -initWithCoder: do [self addSubview:[[[UINib nibWithNibName:@"YMCalendarSheet" bundle:nil] instantiateWithOwner:self options:nil] objectAtIndex:0]]and similarly in -initWithFrame:.

This doesn't technically replace the placeholder view but rather embeds the actual view inside the placeholder. But it's less extravagant than -awakeAfterUsingCoder:.

HTH

Yang

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On 22.07.2014, at 16:14, Xingruo Liu [email protected] wrote:

Hi Yang,

I was reading your blog post (http://blog.yangmeyer.de/blog/2012/07/09/an-update-on-nested-nib-loading/) about an update regarding nested nibs.

There is an update on 2013-03-10 says there is a better way to do this by using initWithCoder:. I am curious how to actually implement it; can you explain it in details?

Thanks!

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[DavydLiu]

Thanks! However, when I was trying to implement the "initWithCoder" part. It went into a infinite recursive calls. Any ideas on this? Should I add some conditions to jump out of this?

[yangmeyer]

I suspect that your EmbedView.nib is trying to instantiate the embedded view (using -initWithCoder:).

1.) In your Container.nib, add a EmbedView. This will instantiate the embedded view using -initWithCoder:. 2.) In EmbedView.nib, the root view should be a UIView (!), which may contain subviews. Connect the subviews outlets with the File Owner.

Note that, using this method, the view hierarchy is different from the -awakeAfterUsingCoder: approach from my blog post, because the subviews are not direct subviews of EmbedView. The UIView from the EmbedView.nib is embedded inside the EmbedView from the Container.nib.

[DavydLiu]

After I set the EmbedView.nib's File Owner to the view class, the infinite loop problem resolved. This approach does add another UIView into the view hierarchy.

Also, I wondering does this approach break the pattern (or convention) that File Owner should only be set to a view controller class instead of a view class?

Thanks!