How to access properties of a view controller loaded from storyboard?
cocoa, iphone, storyboard
Solution
Your `UILabel` is `nil` because you have instantiated your controller but it didn't load its view. The view hierarchy of the controller is loaded the first time you ask for access to its view. So, as @lnafziger suggested (though it should matter for this exact reason) if you switch the two lines it will work. So:
[self.view addSubview: testController.view];
testController.label.text = @"newText";
As an example to illustrate this point, even this one would work:
// Just an example. There is no need to do it like this...
UIView *aView = testController.view;
testController.label.text = @"newText";
[self.view addSubview: testController.view];
Or this one:
[testController loadView];
testController.label.text = @"newText";
[self.view addSubview: testController.view];
Problem
I have a view controller instance created with `instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier` like this: ``` TBSCTestController* testController = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier: @"OTP"]; ``` `TBSCTestController` has an `IBOutlet` property named `label` which is hooked up with a label in the storyboard: I want to modify the text of `label` using this code but nothing changes: ``` testController.label.text = @"newText"; [self.view addSubview: testController.view]; ``` The `testController` is a valid instance but the `label` is nil. What did i miss?