iOS Earliest access to bounds from UIView

[darkandlong]

Hi,

I need to set a property of a UIView (from inside the same UIView, not from its ViewController) based on its initial bounds. What is the earliest point I can access its bounds?

I have tried:

- (id)initWithCoderNSCoder *)aDecoder

and

- (void)didMoveToWindow

but in both cased self.bounds is still null.

Thanks.

 

[dejo]

I believe viewWillAppear: is the earliest (although I might be wrong).

 

[robbieduncan]

I believe viewWillAppear: is the earliest (although I might be wrong).

It's about the earliest I'd consider the values to be worth trusting.

 

[darkandlong]

Thanks for your replies.

turns out bounds were available as early as initWithCoder. Problem was I was trying to NSLog the bounds which are a struct and so they were printing as null even though they were there.

 

[dejo]

Problem was I was trying to NSLog the bounds which are a struct and so they were printing as null even though they were there.

I'd suggest taking advantage of the NSStringFromCGRect() function.

 

[ppilone]

I'd be careful about using the bounds of any view before viewWillAppear. It seems like any time before that method is called the bounds may or may not have had the correct rotation transform applied.