How to connect an xib to my application in iphone - iphone

i have created an application in iphone. i have created all my controller files without an xib. After the controllers have seperatedly created xib from the user interface section and and i started linking the xibs that i have created seperatedly with my controllers .But the problem is that it does get connected with my class.How to connect the xib with my class.Please anybody help me in solving this problem.

open inspector for the xib file
go to the last tab of it
select the controller class for the xib
then open the xib and open the interface builder and make the connection with the view component if you have any
run and enjoy.

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How to load a xib file from a storyboard?

I am new to iOS programming and I am working on a project which will use both XIB files and storyboard.
I have two modules in it basically. First module is made from XIB files which also runs independently. I have made another module using storyboard and I had to integrate these two independently running modules. The screen of my first module which I want to connect to my storyboard is a subclass of UIViewController and I was able to do that with the help of stackoverflow (How to load a storyboard from a XIB file?) by creating an object of UIStoryBoard. Now my application is able to go to the storyboard but I can't come back to my first module which is made up of XIB files.
Please let me know how can I connect to the same instance of the last screen of the first module through which storyboard is called so that I can move back and forth through these views easily. Connecting to the same instance of the XIB file is important because it is a chat screen and when I come back to this screen, I would like to get back to the chat where I had left it and also when I come back to the storyboard (by clicking a button on the chat screen) I have a slider on the screen which should display the value which the user must have chosen when they were on this screen last time. I guess creating a new object should give me a new screen which won't work in this situation. This kind of mechanism works well within storyboard with the use of segue where we can define both source and destination view controller.
Please help me achieve the same in my situation.
Please also check the screen shots of the XIB file and the storyboard which I want connected.
Thanks.
Convert the nib files into storyboard, it will help you easier to manage your application.
Well in your case, what i see is from nibs is that there is a navigation controller in storyboard and also there will be a root view controller navigation controller from xib files.
Well the navigation controller stack has all VCs you pushed into and you can get back it in different ways.

How to launch a window.xib file in storyboard?

I'm new to Xcode and building my first App, I want to incorporate a Twitter feed, my project is done in Storyboard but the Twitter feed code is with .xib, is there a good way to launch the .xib in Storyboard?
There is no real need to launch the window.xib in the storyboard. Just instantiate your view controller that is the file owner of your twitter feed code programmatically and push into your navigation controller. It won't cause any problems. The storyboard is basically an extension to the way screens were managed before. You can have all you "scenes" in storyboard and programmatically push a view controller from outside the storyboard without any problems and navigate back again.
The UINavigationController is the key. It only cares that it got a UIViewController.

Absence of MainWindow.Xib in iOS 5

In iOS 5 sdk with Xcode4.2 i started creating an app with Empty Application Template.But in that template there is no MainWindow.xib.Some posts says to add a MainWindow manually.Is that the right way or proceeed the same without MainWindow.xib for a navigation Based application
The empty application template does not contain any other files - it's an empty template! If you want to create a navigation based application, you can do it in code by creating a navigation controller and setting it as the root view controller of the application window, or you can create your own xib file and set it to the "Main Interface" in your target summary settings.
For information, in XCode4.2/iOS5.0, Apple added the concept of story boards. Now by default, no MainWindow.xib file is created but MainStoryboard.storyboard. You can use it to develop your application. BUT, for backward compatibility, prefer add a nib file that you can name MainWindow.xib. I do not know any other way to use NIB files as it was done before XCode4.2

how to link view controller and .xib file to tab bar item in xcode 4

I have a tab bar with 4 items and i want to link the .xib files to each item. The problem is that the NIB File Name shows no items, and if i write the .xib for example, StartView without the .xib i get an error. I get the same error when i link the tab item to the view controller class in the Identity Inspector. This is the error:
'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: '-[UIViewController _loadViewFromNibNamed:bundle:] loaded the "StartView" nib but the view outlet was not set.'
I had no problem with this in Xcode 3. As far as i know i don't need outlets in my view controller to be able to link a view to a bar item.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks.
Each .xib has a main view that must be connected to its files owner. Usually when you change the class name of a .xibs owner, the view outlet will become disconnected. So you'll want to first check that the class name of your .xib is the custom controller you have made. You then have to open the .xib and click on the connections inspector. Then just drag and connect the view outlet (labelled as view in the connections inspector) to your view.
Cheers.
Problem solved, but i didn't like the solution. I created the view controller again and selected to create a .xib file along with the controller and that was it. Then i made the usual references from interface builder and it's working. I didn't like it because the .xib file has the same name as the view controller class. If anyone knows how to create the .xib file and the view controllers separately and get it to work, please inform me, i would really appreciate it.
select create new file, objective c, check the make xib file box and in the name of it, add .xib extension to the end of the name

Load different view for different device on UITabBarController load

i have a tabbar controller created by interface builder. It has 5 tab with 5 views.
Now i can porting this project in ipad compatible version.
Using xcode and IB i created the correct views for ipad with "create ipad version using autosizing masks".
I have TestView_iPad.xib and TestView.xib
Ok!
Now, how can i load at startup in my tabbar controller the iphone or ipad correct nib file??? What is the right way?
I need to do this in my testview controller or in my appdelegate?
I recognize the devices correctly, but i not able to load from different nib file, because it where setted from interface builder (Nib Name = "TestView" from Inspector)!
someone have a trick?
thanks,
A
For my iOS app, I use two different NIBs and yes, they both have UITabBarControllers. The way I do it is by adding a key to my Info.plist: Main nib file base name (iPad) and copy the iPhone xib and rename it (Example: TabBar_iPad.xib) Then add your new xib's name as the value for Main nib file base name (iPad) and enter the xib's name destined for the iphone under the key Main nib file base name (iPhone)
It works great!