I thought I had tried putting the setText statement after the addSubView but I went back and tried it again and it worked. Thanks for the suggestion.
I cannot simply use IB to put the same label text in as the text label is calculated from user input. Thanks!!!!! Steve On Sep 21, 2010, at Sep 21:6:03 PM, Quincey Morris wrote: > On Sep 21, 2010, at 14:03, Steve Wetzel wrote: > >> I could not get the >> >> [self.viewController1.label2.text >> >> or the >> >> [self view addSubview:viewController2.view]; >> >> to work for some reason. Then it dawned on me that I could set the value >> right before I added the Subview! >> >> [viewController2.label2 setText:label1.text]; >> [self.view addSubview:viewController2.view]; >> >> This works, although for some reason the label does not update unless I >> reload the view. I will figure out what is going on there. > > The usual cause of such behavior is the timing of NIB loading. There are > various points at which code can be executed (init..., awakeFromNib, > viewDidMoveToSuperview, etc), and it can be hard to keep track of the > correctness of your assumptions of what must have happened already. > > In order to transfer the label successfully, you need both view1 and view2 to > have been loaded. Since NSViewController's 'view' method causes the view to > be loaded if necessary, you can be certain it's done *after* executing: > > [self.view addSubview:viewController2.view]; > > since that references both views. Did you try putting the other line: > > [viewController2.label2 setText:label1.text]; > > *after* the 'addSubview' line instead of before? > > Is the label static in view1's NIB? If so, why can't you just use IB to put > the same label text in view2 and have no code at all? > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
