IBOutlet of another view controller is nil

iboutlet, null, swift

Solution

IBOutlets are initialized during view loading process and they are not accessible at the point you are trying to reach them. Instead you must declare a string variable to your viewcontroller and set text to label on its viewDidLoad method (after the loading process has finished)

class StoryViewController: UIViewController {
    @IBOutlet weak var textLabel: UILabel!
    @IBOutlet weak var inspiredButton: UIButton!
    var text:String!

   override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    textLabel.text = text
   }
}

And from first controller initialize text variable as follow

let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "YourStoryboardName", bundle: nil)
var story = storyboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("YourVCIdentifier") as StoryViewController
story.text = sampleText()
self.presentViewController(story, animated: false , completion: nil)

Problem

I have a storyviewcontroller which has objects on its view. I need to change the text on the UILabel(In the storyviewcontroller) and the load the view on an array. I have connected the IBOutlet to the label in the storyviewcontroller. ``` class StoryViewController: UIViewController { @IBOutlet weak var textLabel: UILabel! @IBOutlet weak var inspiredButton: UIButton! ``` I have created an object of the storyviewcontroller class and am able to access its variables. However, after creating the object of the storyviewcontroller, the IBOutlet is nil. Because of this, I get an exception saying found nil while unwrapping ``` let story:StoryViewController = StoryViewController() story.textLabel.text = sampleText() ``` Can you please help me with this! Here is a link to the whole project https://github.com/abhishekagarwal2301/DTC Thanks

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