Cocoa Touch: Creating and Adding Custom View
- by Jason
I create a custom view in cocoa touch that is superclassed by UIView and in my main controller I initialize it and then add it as a subview to the main view, but when I add it to the main view it calls my initializer method again and causes an infinite loop. Am I going about creating my custom view wrong?
Here is the mainView
(void)loadView {
UIImage *tempImage = [UIImage imageNamed: @"image1.jpg"];
CustomImageContainer *testImage = [[CustomImageContainer alloc] initWithImage: tempImage andLabel: @"test image" onTop: true atX: 10 atY: 10];
[self.view addSubview: testImage];
}
and the CustomImageContainer
-(CustomImageContainer *) initWithImage: (UIImage *)imageToAdd andLabel: (NSString *)text onTop: (BOOL) top atX: (int) x_cord atY: (int) y_cord{
UIImageView *imageview_to_add = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage: imageToAdd];
imageview_to_add.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, imageToAdd.size.width, imageToAdd.size.height);
UILabel *label_to_add = [[UILabel alloc] init];
label_to_add.text = text;
label_to_add.alpha = 50;
label_to_add.backgroundColor = [UIColor blackColor];
label_to_add.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
[self addSubview: imageview_to_add];
self.frame = CGRectMake(x_cord, y_cord, imageToAdd.size.width, imageToAdd.size.height);
if (top) {
label_to_add.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, imageview_to_add.frame.size.width, imageview_to_add.frame.size.height);
//[self addSubview: label_to_add];
}
else {
label_to_add.frame = CGRectMake(0,.2 * imageview_to_add.frame.size.height, imageview_to_add.frame.size.width, imageview_to_add.frame.size.height);
}
[self addSubview: label_to_add];
[super init];
return self;
}
