Custom UIView label and animation not showing up in view controller - ios

Question

I actually have a custom uiview that works, and I think everything in the uiview that doesn't work is set up the same as the one that works. Here is the code:
protocol SessionDisplayViewDelegate: class
{
func homeButtonTapped()
}
class SessionDisplayView: UIView
{
#IBOutlet var view: UIView!
#IBOutlet weak var accountImage: UIButton!
#IBOutlet weak var mySKView: SKView!
#IBOutlet weak var sessionTitle: UILabel!
weak var delegate: SessionDisplayViewDelegate?
required init(coder aDecoder: NSCoder)
{
super.init(coder: aDecoder)!
commonInitialization()
}
override init(frame: CGRect) {
super.init(frame: frame)
commonInitialization()
}
func commonInitialization()
{
Bundle.main.loadNibNamed("SessionDisplayView", owner: self, options: nil)
self.addSubview(self.view)
//accountImage = UIImage(data: ShareData.sharedInstance.accounts[ShareData.sharedInstance.indexOfCurrentAccount].picture!, scale: 1.0)
}
func onView()
{
let curScene = MyScene(size: mySKView.bounds.size)
curScene.scaleMode = SKSceneScaleMode.aspectFill
mySKView.presentScene(curScene)
let myImage = UIImage(data: (ShareData.sharedInstance.accounts[ShareData.sharedInstance.indexOfCurrentAccount]?.picture!)! as Data, scale: 0.5)
accountImage.setImage(myImage, for: UIControlState())
sessionTitle.text = ShareData.sharedInstance.accounts[ShareData.sharedInstance.indexOfCurrentAccount]?.name
var myTest = sessionTitle.text
self.view.setNeedsDisplay()
}
#IBAction func homeButtonTouched(_ sender: UIButton)
{
delegate?.homeButtonTapped()
}
}
I don't know that the self.view.setNeedsDisplay() needs to be called- I'm just trying to make it work. The title doesn't change even though the variable for the title does change- I've checked that, and that is working. Either there's a connection issue between the label and the variable, or the view controller isn't getting the update signal to change the view controller. I don't know which- and I don't know how to nail down which it is, either. Any ideas on how to fix this would be deeply appreciated. Here is the ViewController code:
class SessionDisplayViewController: UIViewController, SessionDisplayViewDelegate
{
#IBOutlet weak var mySessionView: SessionDisplayView!
func homeButtonTapped()
{
self.performSegue(withIdentifier: "ReturnHome", sender: self)
}
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// Do any additional setup after loading the view.
mySessionView.onView()
mySessionView.sessionTitle.text = "Test"
}
override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
// Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}
override var shouldAutorotate : Bool {
if (UIDevice.current.orientation == UIDeviceOrientation.landscapeLeft) || (UIDevice.current.orientation == UIDeviceOrientation.landscapeRight) || (UIDevice.current.orientation == UIDeviceOrientation.unknown)
{
return true
}
else
{
return false
}
}
override var supportedInterfaceOrientations : UIInterfaceOrientationMask {
return [UIInterfaceOrientationMask.portrait, UIInterfaceOrientationMask.portraitUpsideDown]
}
override var preferredStatusBarStyle : UIStatusBarStyle
{
return UIStatusBarStyle.lightContent
}
}
Any thoughts or suggestion on how to get the UIView to update would be most welcome. Thanks.
Sincerely,
Sean

Answer 1

How does you add your custom view to your root view? From code or from xib/storyboard? If you done that by xib/storyboard you must override awakeFromNib method in your custom view class and call commonInitialization inside it. init() method was call only if you create your view by code.