Correct way to load a Nib for a UIView subclass

Question

I am aware this question has been asked before but the answers are contradicting and I am confused, so please don\'t flame me.

I want to have a reusable UIView

Answer 1

If you want to keep your CustomView and its xib independent of File's Owner, then follow these steps

• Leave the File's Owner field empty.
• Click on actual view in xib file of your CustomView and set its Custom Class as CustomView (name of your custom view class)
• Add IBOutlet in .h file of your custom view.
• In .xib file of your custom view, click on view and go in Connection Inspector. Here you will all your IBOutlets which you define in .h file
• Connect them with their respective view.

in .m file of your CustomView class, override the init method as follow

-(CustomView *) init{
    CustomView *result = nil;
    NSArray* elements = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed: NSStringFromClass([self class]) owner:self options: nil];
    for (id anObject in elements)
    {
        if ([anObject isKindOfClass:[self class]])
        {
            result = anObject;
            break;
        }
    }
    return result;
}

Now when you want to load your CustomView, use the following line of code [[CustomView alloc] init];