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How to Insert View in Superview's View? (iOS)

I have the line of code below... How would I modify it to insert the subview in the superview's view named 'foo'?

[[self superview] addSubview:copy3];
Solution

  • There are more than 1 ways of doing this -

    1.have an IBOutlet reference in your code. This is created from xcode Interface builder. Once you have this then it fairly straight forward - 

    [iboutlet_foo_object addSubview:copy3];

    2.tag the view that you are interested in. Again tagging a view can be done from xcode Interface builder or from code. After that - 

    Foo *fooObj = [[self superview] viewWithTag:tagInt];
[fooObj addSubview:copy3];

    3.Finally you can iterate through all the views in your superview & see which one is of type Foo - 

    NSArray *subviews = [[self superview] subviews];
for(UIView *v in subviews)
{
    if(v isKindOfClass:[Foo class])
    {
        [v addSubview:copy3];
        break;
    }
}

    hope these methods help you...