Frame not being set with initWithFrame with xib - ios

Question

I am having huge problems with learning autolayout especially when integrating xibs and uiscrollviews. In an effort to simplify my problem, I started a new project with a single view tied to a storyboard. I then subclassed UIView (Diptic) and created a xib file for it. My storyboard is not using autolayout, but my Diptic xib is. Right now I want to have a horizontal scrollView with a few Diptic instances layed out across it. But I am only ever getting the first diptic instance to show up, because the frame isn't being initialized correctly.
In my ViewController.m's viewDidLoad:
self.scrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake((self.view.frame.size.width+10)*5, self.view.frame.size.height);
for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++){
int x = i*(self.view.frame.size.width+10);
Diptic *diptic = [[Diptic alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(x, 50, self.view.frame.size.width, self.view.frame.size.height-100)];
[self.scrollView addSubview:diptic];
[array addObject:diptic];
UIView *greenBox = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(x, 5, 40, 40)];
greenBox.backgroundColor = [UIColor greenColor];
[self.scrollView addSubview:greenBox];
}
Diptic.m
#import "Diptic.h"
#implementation Diptic
- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame
{
self = [super initWithFrame:frame];
if (self) {
// Initialization code
NSArray* views = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:#"Diptic" owner:nil options:nil];
self = [views objectAtIndex:0];
self.label.text = #"WOOT";
self.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
}
return self;
}
#end
If I set the frame after I add it to the view it seems to work, but why can't I set the frame with initWithFrame?

Answer 1

The problem here is that you assign the frame to a view that is created with a call to [super initWithFrame:frame]. When the NIB is loaded in - (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame, self is replaced with a view from [views objectAtIndex:0] and the frame for this view is never set. Instead, eliminate the call to super and load the view from the NIB instead:
#import "Diptic.h"
#implementation Diptic
- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame
{
NSArray *views = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:#"Diptic" owner:nil options:nil];
self = [views objectAtIndex:0];
if (self) {
self.frame = frame;
self.label.text = #"WOOT";
self.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
}
return self;
}
#end

Answer 2

When init a view/controller from storyboard or from xib, the init method is
- (id)initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)decoder
try to do other things in this method