UIScrollView addSubView: How do you prevent re-adding the same UILabel instance? - iphone

Question

So apparently I'm adding the same label over and over. I have an IBOutlet for UILabel that I hooked up in IB. I did that because that's the position I want it in for my UIScrollView. I also want a new label on each page in my ScrollView but I can't figure out how to do it.
Any suggestions for how to accomplish this? Because I'm lost :-/
AnotherMadeUpViewController.h
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#interface AnotherMadeUpViewController : UIViewController<UIScrollViewDelegate>
{
IBOutlet UIPageControl *pageControl;
IBOutlet UIScrollView *scroller;
IBOutlet UILabel *label;
}
#property (nonatomic,retain)IBOutlet UIPageControl *pageControl;
#property (nonatomic,retain)IBOutlet UIScrollView *scroller;
#property (nonatomic,retain)IBOutlet UILabel *label;
-(IBAction)clickPageControl:(id)sender;
#end
AnotherMadeUpViewController.m
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
scroller.delegate=self;
scroller.pagingEnabled=YES;
scroller.directionalLockEnabled=YES;
scroller.showsHorizontalScrollIndicator=NO;
scroller.showsVerticalScrollIndicator=NO;
scroller.contentSize=CGSizeMake(pageControl.numberOfPages*scroller.frame.size.width, scroller.frame.size.height);
CGFloat labelOriginX = label.frame.origin.x;
CGFloat labelOriginY = label.frame.origin.y;
CGFloat scrollWidth = 0;
int pageNumber = 0;
for (int i=0; i<3; i++)
{
CGRect rect = label.frame;
rect.size.height = label.frame.size.height;
rect.size.width = label.frame.size.width;
rect.origin.x = labelOriginX + scrollWidth;
rect.origin.y = labelOriginY;
label.frame = rect;
label.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%d", pageNumber];
label.textColor = [UIColor redColor];
[scroller addSubview:label];
pageNumber++;
scrollWidth += scroller.frame.size.width;
}
pageControl.numberOfPages=3;
pageControl.currentPage=0;
[self.view addSubview:scroller];
}

Answer 1

You are re-adding the same UILabel instance over and over then, nothing happens other than changing the label's location (frame) in the scrollView's contentView. You'd have to add 8 copies of that label to the scrollView, each in a different frame. If you want to tile an image in the scrollView's background, try setting its backgroundColor to a pattern image created with +[UIColor colorWithPatternImage: ]