How can you create an accessoryInputView in a Storyboard design?

Question

I am trying to create an accessoryInputView to augment the keyboard with some app-specific keys.

I am using a Storyboard based design approach to keep the the UI separated from the application logic.

I cannot seem to understand how to create the new view and associated it with the textView. Is it possible?

Answer 1

In case anyone else is trying to do this, let me record what I ended up doing.

I created a new XIB with the accessoryView I wanted in it. I could not figure out how to assign the inputAccessoryView directly into a storyboard design, so I did the following.

I made the fileOwner of the XIB as the controller class that contains the textView that needs the accessoryView and assigned the view to a IBOutlet in that class. That allows me to load the XIB and auto-assign it to the IBOutlet.

Then in the viewDidLoad, I assign the IBOutlet to the textView that needs it. It works well and allows me to do all the UI work in IB and keep the logic in the controller. I guess I can consider setting the inputAccessoryView as 'logic' and not UI design and consider this a good design. Not stellar, since IB does not allow setting the inputAccessoryView directly from a XIB or creating views in a storyboard that are not part of the flow of the app.

The code in viewDidLoad looks like:

- (void) viewDidLoad
{
    ...   
    [super viewDidLoad];
    [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"NoteInputAccessoryView" owner:self options:nil];

    _noteTextView.inputAccessoryView=_noteInputAccessoryView;
    ...
}