How to access IBOutlets declared in superclass?

Question

I\'m currently refactoring a couple of view controllers that share a few IBOutlets and IBAction methods. I moved the outlet declarations and the

Answer 1

On the project I am currently working, we have a BaseViewController with a UIScrollView as IBOutlet and handles keyboard appearance/disappearance events and slides the content accordingly. At first, I could not connect to that IBOutlet, than solved the problem like this, which is similar to Sosily's answer:

• BaseViewController has an IBOutlet, called contentScrollView. I can see 5 previously connected outlets, which are UIScrollViews on other UIViewControllers, created by people who previously worked on the project

• I tried to connect my UIScrollView as the contentScrollView. Although my UIViewController is a subclass of BaseViewController, I cannot connect it.

• I tried to connect already connected UIScrollViews as the contentScrollView. Although all UIViewControllers are subclasses of BaseViewController, I cannot connect them again, as well. So, I started to look for a trick.

• I have created the same contentScrollView IBOutlet on my own UIViewController, connected the scrollView to my own contentScrollView outlet and removed the one that I have just created.

• Now the scrollView is connected as contentScrollView to File's Owner, but the only contentScrollView belongs to the BaseViewController. Tested and verified that keyboard events are handled correctly.