How can I manipulate objects in a subView?

Question

Got away from XCode programming for a while, now I'm starting back and feel like I'm starting ALL over. I have a simple example that's driving me crazy. I have created a sub class of UIView called Word1View and added it to my storyboard. I declared it as a property in the main view controller and attached it as an IBOutlet to the main view. I can draw on this view using Core Graphics with no problems (rectangles, lines, etc). Here's the code in the ".h" file. The property is synthesized correctly in the ".m"

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#import "Word1View.h"

@interface Board3ViewController : UIViewController
{
    Word1View *word1View;
}   
@property (nonatomic, strong) IBOutlet Word1View *word1View;
@end

Now, here's the problem. I have added a UILabel (I will be adding UIImageFiles later) in Word1View.h it appears as so:

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface Word1View : UIView
{
    UILabel *testLabel;
}
@property (nonatomic, retain) UILabel *testLabel;
@end

This property is also synthesized correctly. The UILabel was added to the view in the main storyboard. I tried to make this an IBOutlet, but could not hook it up as long as it was part of the subview. I tried to access the UILabel in my main view controller as so:

[super viewDidLoad];
[self.view addSubview:word1View];
NSLog(@"Label text is: %@", word1View.testLabel.text);

I don't have any access to that label as evidenced by the output to NSLog which is: Board3[14520:c07] Label text is: (null)

I would like to be able to access the label (change its text, properties etc) from my main View Controller.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

You need to instantiate your UILabel and give it some text.

wordView1 = [[UILabel alloc] init];
wordView.text = @"Some Text";