Getting subViews' frames in Storyboard

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I just want (for now) to get the dimensions of a subview on the view controller's instantiation. [This is a reduction to as simple a case I can find of a previous question. I am trying to figure out why subViews of scenes in Storyboards are not behaving the way I expect, which is to say: like XIBs do - I just want to get dimensions of my subviews before anything is actually drawn to the screen] To condense the problem down to a new, clean project, I do this: - create a new, single view project with "using Storyboard" checked - add a single UIView to the default existing `MainStoryboard_iPad.storyboard` (and change its background to green to make it more easily seen - beyond shrinking the dimensions some, this is the only change I make from the default UIView I drag onto the scene) - option-click the `ViewController.h` file in the navigator to bring it up in its own frame underneath the Storyboard frame and insert a pair of braces underneath the `@interface` directive - control-click-a…

Accepted Answer

Those dimensions are calculated and set when the call to `layoutSubviews` is made, which occurs after `viewWillAppear`. After `layoutSubviews` is called on the UIVIew you can get the dimensions.

Look at implementing this method in your view controller: `viewDidLayoutSubviews`. At this point you should be able to get dimensions of your subviews. Note that this call is available starting in iOS 5.0 but since you reference storyboards I assume you are working at or above that anyway.

```
- (void)viewDidLayoutSubviews
{
    [super viewDidLayoutSubviews];

NSLog(@"View Controller did layout subviews. firstViewFirstSubView: %@ ", firstViewFirstSubView);
    NSLog(@"subView's dimmensions: %f by %f at %f, %f", firstViewFirstSubView.frame.size.width,
      firstViewFirstSubView.frame.size.height,
      firstViewFirstSubView.frame.origin.x,
      firstViewFirstSubView.frame.origin.y);
}
```

Getting subViews' frames in Storyboard

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