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iOS

Posted by Joshua Lee
Joshua Lee
3,625 Points

IBOuletCollection not connecting to images. (Objecive-C)

So I have 12 Image views in my first ViewController, and I created a IBOutletCollection property to connect all the images to the same property. When I go to try and connect the IBOuletCollection to my images, it doesn't allow me. I don't know if this a xcode glitch, but its frustrating and I can't seem to find a solution. Any help would be great, thanks.

1 Answer

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points

Try connecting the image to the IBOutletCollection instead. If that doesn't work, make sure that the image views are in the same view controller as the code for the IBOutletCollection. If that doesn't work, maybe kill and restart Xcode?

Joshua Lee
Joshua Lee
3,625 Points

Still, no luck made sure everything was correct and good to go; maybe it could be a glitch in XCode? I'm using 8.3.3. It works when I used it for buttons, but the same doesn't apply to images.

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points

Perhaps this is a stupid question, but it's an important one: Are you sure that your IBOutletCollection is of the type NSArray <UIImageView *> *?

Joshua Lee
Joshua Lee
3,625 Points

Wow, I actually had it the other way around; I didn't even notice because I thought it couldn't be so simple of an error, lol. Thanks so much for the help.

Joshua Lee
Joshua Lee
3,625 Points

Actually, I had it right the first time, now I have no idea what I'm doing wrong.

Joshua Lee
Joshua Lee
3,625 Points

Last update, I had "UIImage" as the class collection and not "UIImageView." We're good to go, thanks for the help, very much appreciated.

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points

Thant was the next question I was gonna ask. I'm glad you got it fixed!