Xcode - subview not visible - ios

Question

I have created a UIViewController with a UIScrollView. On the scrollView I have a page control. When I was testing it I was able to scroll horizontally through four different color pages. Now I need to add the actual views I need. In a different part of the project I created a line graph using coreplot. Now I have added made a new UIview and added the code for the line graph. I am now trying to replace the first page of the scrollView with the linegraph UIView. I am getting no errors however nothing is appearing on the screen either. It is just the default background of the scrollView. The scrollView still scrolls through the other pages correctly. I added a button programatically to the UIView to see if it had something to do with coreplot but I cannot see that either. Here is some of my code. I would appreciate any advice. Thanks.
The viewDidLoad method for my main viewController:
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
NSArray *colors = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:[UIColor redColor], [UIColor greenColor], [UIColor blueColor], [UIColor purpleColor], nil];
CGRect frame;
frame.origin.x = self.scrollView.frame.size.width;
frame.origin.y = 0;
frame.size = self.scrollView.frame.size;
self.alertsSubView = [[AlertsView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
[self.scrollView addSubview:_alertsSubView];
for (int i = 1; i < numberOfGraphs; i++) {
CGRect frame;
frame.origin.x = self.scrollView.frame.size.width * i;
frame.origin.y = 0;
frame.size = self.scrollView.frame.size;
UIView *subview = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
subview.backgroundColor = [colors objectAtIndex:i];
[self.scrollView addSubview:subview];
self.alertsSubView.delegate = self;
_scrollView.delegate = (id)self;
}
self.scrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(self.scrollView.frame.size.width * colors.count, self.scrollView.frame.size.height);
}
Here is the code for the initWithFrame method from my UIView. All of the NSLog statements get run so I know everything is being called:
- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame
{
self = [super initWithFrame:frame];
if (self) {
// Initialization code
NSLog(#"AlertsView initWithFrame");
///button for testing
self.button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
CGRect buttonFrame = CGRectMake(0,0, frame.size.width, frame.size.height);
self.button.frame = buttonFrame;
[self.button addTarget:self
action:#selector(buttonTouched)
forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
[self addSubview:self.button];
[self initPlot];
}
return self;
}
I am also adding the methods initPlot and ConfigureHost in case they are relevant:
-(void)initPlot {
NSLog(#"into init plot");
[self configureHost];
[self configureGraph];
[self configurePlots];
[self configureAxes];
NSLog(#"endo of init plot");
}
-(void)configureHost {
NSLog(#"into configure host");
self.hostView = [(CPTGraphHostingView *) [CPTGraphHostingView alloc] initWithFrame:self.bounds];
self.hostView.allowPinchScaling = YES;
[self addSubview:self.hostView];
}

Answer 1

I finally figured this out. Thanks for your suggestion #Eric Skroch. It actually led me down the path to the right answer even though it was not the problem. Basically to fix this problem I had to move all of the logic into the view controller and change the order of alot of the code. I am posting the relevant parts of my revised view controller here in case anyone runs across anything similar.
-(void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
[super viewDidAppear:animated];
[_alertsSubView initPlot];
}
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
NSArray *colors = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:[UIColor redColor], [UIColor greenColor], [UIColor blueColor], [UIColor purpleColor], nil];
alertFrame.origin.x = self.scrollView.frame.size.width;
alertFrame.origin.y = 0;
alertFrame.size = self.scrollView.frame.size;
_panel = [[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:alertFrame];
for (int i = 1; i < numberOfGraphs; i++) {
CGRect frame;
frame.origin.x = self.scrollView.frame.size.width * i;
frame.origin.y = 0;
frame.size = self.scrollView.frame.size;
UIView *subview = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
subview.backgroundColor = [colors objectAtIndex:i];
[self.scrollView addSubview:subview];
}
self.scrollView.contentSize = CGSizeMake(self.scrollView.frame.size.width * colors.count, self.scrollView.frame.size.height);
_scrollView.delegate = (id)self;
self.alertsSubView.delegate = self;
}
-(AlertsView *)alertsSubView
{
if(!_alertsSubView)
{
CGRect alertsViewFrame = CGRectMake(0,0, _panel.bounds.size.width, _panel.bounds.size.height);
_alertsSubView = [[AlertsView alloc] initWithFrame:alertsViewFrame];
_alertsSubView.backgroundColor = [UIColor purpleColor];
[self.scrollView addSubview:self.alertsSubView];
}
return _alertsSubView;
}