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iOS Simple UIView Question

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krayziekray

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If I am coding an extension to UIView programatically, which function do I add all subviews in the View.m file in order to build the view hierarchy? The drawRect is definitely the wrong function to do this as this can be called hundreds of times and I don't believe the init functions would do this.

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Ides

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Not Understanding...

Could you please refrain your question? I can't really understand what you're trying to say. Something about the view hierarchy?

If you're asking about having the view properly display all of it's subviews, then the answer is: don't worry about it. The UIView class already has methods that will take care of the drawing of subviews, you don't need to write anything extra.
 
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Sydde

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Does your view itself have any special behavior or is it just a container for subviews? If it is just a container, you should not actually have to subclass UIView. Typically, subviews are added to a view by a view controller. The view takes care of the rest, and the subviews take care of themselves.
 
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krayziekray

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Hi, so basically I want my view to add and position subviews when it is loaded rather than having to manually call a method to do so. Let's say my view is a container. When it is created I want it to add and position views depending on the values I added in the init function. Would layoutSubviews do this?

Thanks.
 
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