connecting to IBOutlet from a NibDesignable subclass

[edwardIshaq]

First i must say that the NibDesignable class is awesome.

I've created a subclass called LineField which contains a UITextField with a line under it. when I plug in my LineField into my Storyboard, I wanted to be able to connect an IBOutlet on my UIViewController to the LineField's text field. but unfortunately that doesn't seem possible. Is there a way to do that which I'm not aware of ?

@IBDesignable
public class LineField: NibDesignable {

    @IBOutlet weak var textField: UITextField!
    @IBOutlet weak var lineView: UIView!

    @IBInspectable public var lineColor: UIColor = UIColor.lightGrayColor() {
        didSet {
            self.lineView.backgroundColor = lineColor
        }
    }

    override public func awakeFromNib() {
        super.awakeFromNib()
    }

}

My ViewController:

class TextQuestionEditVC: UIViewController {

    @IBOutlet weak var saveButton: UIBarButtonItem!
    @IBOutlet weak var questionLineField: LineField!
    @IBOutlet weak var searchField: UITextField!

}

TLDR: how do i connect my searchField to the LineField->textField ?

[mbogh]

Hi @edwardIshaq, as far as I know this is not possible to connect a sub view/control to an outlet on your view controller.

May I ask why you would want to connect the UITextField from your LineField to the searchField outlet??

[edwardIshaq]

I wanted to be able to work directly and customize the uitextfield directly with having to expose all the standard IBDesignables

Edward Ashak

On Oct 28, 2015, at 12:12 PM, Morten Bøgh notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi @edwardIshaq, as far as I know this is not possible to connect a sub view/control to an outlet on your view controller.

May I ask why you would want to connect the UITextField from your LineField to the searchField outlet??

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[IsmailHassanein]

@edwardIshaq How about the following: Make your textField public

1. @IBOutlet public var textfield: UITextField!
2. in your viewController create searchField this way var searchField:UITextField! { return lineField?.textFeild}