Localization of custom class set in storyboard doesn't work

Question

I added MyTextField , which inherits UITextField .

And,set the textField's custom class set in storyboard to MyTextField .

I localised the textFields's placeholder,but it doesn't work.

If I empty custom class, it works fine.

I can set by code, but could you tell me better choice?

Answer 1

This looks like a bug (unless someone can point me out to a link where such a behavior is detailed as normal by Apple).

What I did was to keep the localizations in the localized storyboard files and manually load them at runtime from there, using NSLocalizedStringFromTable :

MyTextField* myTextField = <find your textField>;
myTextField.placeholder = NSLocalizedStringFromTable(@"PyC-mJ-2Mz.placeholder", @"storyboardName", nil);

The name of the localized string can be found by searching in the localized files for the storyboard. It is a very ugly and manual way of patching the behavior, but at least this way, when (if?) the bug is fixed, all you have to do is to remove that line.