Iphone UIButton not working in nested UIViews

Question

This is so damn simple im sure! Im missing something and im exhausted from trying to fix it. hopefully someone can help.

The Button in CharacterView.m works but the

Answer 1

FINALLY!!!!!!

I had to init all the views with initWithFrame and pass in valid frame rects. Init should be used with controllers and initWithFrame passing rects for UIViews!!!!

characterView = [ [ CharacterView alloc ] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 480, 320)]; 
then 
characterMale = [ [ CharacterMale alloc ] initWithFrame:frame];