在Swift中以编程方式声明约束时，为什么会出现错误？

Question

I am declaring a constraint inside a UIViewController class called Home . Here's what the code looks like:

class Home: UIViewController {

@IBOutlet weak var buttonUpgrade: UIButton!

var constraint = NSLayoutConstraint (item: buttonUpgrade, 
attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.Bottom, 
relatedBy: NSLayoutRelation.Equal, 
toItem: self.view, 
attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.Bottom, 
multiplier: 1, 
constant: 500)

...
}

However, I get this error: Home.type does not have a member named buttonUpgrade . Why?

You can download the project from here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/x7avclri0ijw3pd/DemoConstraints.zip?dl=0 .

Answer 1

As already mentioned, you can't write such code outside a function. But what you can do is declaring your variable global(outside a function) like that:

var constraint:NSLayoutConstraint!

Then you can initialize it in for example your viewDidLoad -method which will be called once:

constraint = NSLayoutConstraint (item: buttonUpgrade, 
attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.Bottom, 
relatedBy: NSLayoutRelation.Equal, 
toItem: self.view, 
attribute: NSLayoutAttribute.Bottom, 
multiplier: 1, 
constant: 500)

After you did that, you can access the constraint variable from everywhere in your class. Just make sure that the variable is filled before using it.