How to get the name of an element of a UIViewControl object from a storyboard

Question

I am trying to define a variable in a property in the UIViewControl class. This variable is a reference for another UIViewControl class called ViewControl.

var handle = ViewControl(nibName: "insert_viewcontroller_id_here", bundle: nil") 

How to get nibName? Also, what is the nib name and why does it need to be referenced when the view control already has the class name UIViewControl?

Best, Alex.

Answer 1

If you want to create a new UIViewController, you have two ways to do this.

1st path (programmatic path): create a new class that is a subclass of UIViewController. Thus, you create an instance of the view controller using the following code:

 var viewController = ViewControl() 

2nd way (xib / storyboard path): Create a new viewController using xib or storyboard. So, if you chose this method and you have a view controller created in xib or a storyboard, you must create a new view controller link using the following code:

 //Xib var viewController = UIViewController(nibName: "ViewController", bundle: nil) //Storyboard var viewControllerStoryboardId = "ViewController" var storyboardName = "Main" var storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: storyboardName, bundle: NSBundle.mainBundle()) let viewController = storyboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier(viewControllerStoryboardId) as UIViewController!