Add subviews to Custom UIView without using a XIB file

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I am trying to create a view class to work with the flyout navigation component. As of yet, I have not found a way to create a view and add subview's to itself. Here is a sample view class that I have created--note, I am not using a XIB file because I would like to avoid XCode--it has been going in and out of sync constantly. This is simply a normal C# file that inherits UIView and attempts to create a view. How do I add subviews to it?

using System;
using System.Drawing;
using MonoTouch.Foundation;
using MonoTouch.UIKit;
using FlyoutNavigation;
using MonoTouch.Dialog;

namespace Flyout
{
public class MessagesView : UIView
{
    public MessagesView ()
    {
        var field = new UITextField (new RectangleF(10f, 10f, 300f, 40f));
        field.Placeholder = "Test";
        field.BorderStyle = UITextBorderStyle.RoundedRect;
  // does not work  MessagesView.addSubview(field);
        var field2 = new UITextField (new RectangleF(10f, 60f, 300f, 40f));
        field2.Placeholder = "Test2";
        field2.BorderStyle = UITextBorderStyle.RoundedRect;
    }
}

}

"does not work" - what does not work when you try AddSubview? Do you get an error? Or is the field just not visible on the view? — Jason, Jun 12 '13 at 19:43
have you tried this.AddSubview() instead of MessagesView.AddSubview()? MessagesView is a class, not an instance. And you should probably put that logic in your ViewDidAppear() method, not the constructor. — Jason, Jun 12 '13 at 19:56

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 12 '13 at 19:22

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UIView has an AddSubview() method.

[MonoTouch.Foundation.Export("addSubview:")]
public virtual void AddSubview (UIView view)

answered Jun 12 '13 at 19:22

Jason

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