why the view in my storyboard doesn't show up (Swift)?

Question

I has one initial view controller in my story board here is the code:

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {


@IBOutlet weak var textField: UITextField!

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

   let customview = customUI()

    textField.inputView = customview.view
}

override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
    super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()

}

}

in the customUI class I have this code :

import UIKit

class customUI : UIViewController {

    override func viewDidLoad() {

        super.viewDidLoad()

    }

}

Then I create another viewController in storyboard and set the class to be customUI class. Then I choose its background color in storyboard to be blue.

Then I run the simulator, and click on the textField. it loads the plain grey area instead of the blue background that I have set.

Why? how to fix this? I'm new to UI in Xcode.

some people talking about this issue in Objective-C but I know only swift, please give me detail explanation in swift.

I think you should check out this post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27276561/swift-adding-a-view-controller-as-a-subview-in-another-view-controller — Laffen, Nov 02 '15 at 08:25

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 02 '15 at 08:41

When you create the customview object it does not have any connection with your storyboard, you need to do:

let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let customview = storyboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("SIDCustomUI") as! customUI

where SIDCustomUI is Storyboard ID for your ViewController

why the view in my storyboard doesn't show up (Swift)?

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