Setting UILabel text not working?

Question

I have this XML parser class that needs to set the text of a UILabel. For some reason when I call my external (My external custom method is located in ViewController) custom method from the XML parsing class I cant change the labels text. Anything else like NSLogging works or an UIAlert works.
Code im trying to do it with:

-(void) parser:(NSXMLParser *) parser didStartElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName attributes:(NSDictionary *)attributeDict{
    if([elementName isEqualToString:@"names"]){
        NSLog(@"Found names body");

    }
    else if ([elementName isEqualToString:@"user"]){

 array = [attributeDict objectForKey:@"nameofuser"];
        ViewController * main = [[ViewController alloc] init];
        [main outputToLabel:array];

    }
    NSLog(@"Reading value: %@", elementName);
}

This is my ViewController custom method:

-(void) outputToLabel:(NSArray *) dict{

    NSLog(@"seting %@ srcds", dict);
    // XML stuff here \/

NSLog(@"%@", dict);

       //                 /\

    this.text = @"Complete";
}

It NSLogs out the values correctly and everything... I just cant set the labels text. I can use that code in viewDidLoad and it works fine. Any ideas?

Answer 1

    ViewController * main = [[ViewController alloc] init];
    [main outputToLabel:array];

You're creating a new instance of your ViewController and setting the label in it. The "real" instance of ViewController is not affected by this action.