Interface Builder can't see classes in a static library

Question

I have refactored some UIView sub-classes into a static library. However, when using Interface Builder to create view components for a project that uses the static library I

Answer 1

I had the same problem. Dragging the library or headers to XIB Browser didn't work. Read Class Files didn't work. So I called:

[MyLibraryClass version];    // Substitute your class name for "MyLibraryClass".

This worked. version is a class method of NSObject, so all subclasses of NSObject inherit it.