Loading ViewController from xib file

ios swift initialization xib viewcontroller
bluenowhere picture bluenowhere · May 5, 2016 · Viewed 70k times · Source

I had a MyViewController.swift and a MyViewController.xib presenting the layout of MyViewController.

I tried different methods to load this view controller including:

//1
let myVC = UINib(nibName: "MyViewController", bundle:
       nil).instantiateWithOwner(nil, options: nil)[0] as? MyViewController

//2
let myVC = NSBundle.mainBundle().loadNibNamed("MyViewController", owner: self, options: nil)[0] as? MyViewController

//3
let myVC = MyViewController(nibName: "MyViewController", bundle: nil)

The third one is the only successful initialisation, but the previous two are causing error:

Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSUnknownKeyException',

reason: '[ setValue:forUndefinedKey:]: this class is not key value coding-compliant for the key XXX.

What's wrong with those loading methods?

Answer

Marcos Reboucas picture Marcos Reboucas · Jun 21, 2017

Swift 3

let myViewController = MyViewController(nibName: "MyViewController", bundle: nil)
self.present(myViewController, animated: true, completion: nil)

or push in navigation controller

self.navigationController!.pushViewController(MyViewController(nibName: "MyViewController", bundle: nil), animated: true)

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