Should work with defaults dropping into Storyboard

[joeljfischer]

Right now, just dropping it into a Storyboard has it working like an ordinary UITextField, can it be modified with sensible defaults to work out of the box in Storyboards? I saw a pull request adding support for Nibs, but when I tried to subclass a UITextField in a Storyboard, nothing changed.

[DimaVartanian]

can you attach a sample project showcasing the problem? the pull request i submitted should've made it work.

[joeljfischer]

https://github.com/joeljfischer/Test_Floating_Label

I really hope I'm not making an ass of myself by missing something stupid.

[DimaVartanian]

Okay, I found the issue. JVFloatLabeledTextField depends on code to call its setter for the placeholder(- (void)setPlaceholder:(NSString *)placeholder), because that is where the text and size is set for the floating label. The nib does not call this setter when setting the placeholder so it is never called. As a quick/temporary fix, you can create an outlet in your view controller for the text field, and force a call to the setter in viewDidLoad, like this "_textField.placeholder = _textField.placeholder;" (assuming your outlet is called _textField). This will make it function normally.

As to why it is not being called, I'm not sure. I was under the impression that when setting attributes in interface builder, the system first tries to use a setter if there is one, and only is one is not found sets it directly. I would probably know more about this if I actually used storyboards and nibs, but I tend to code all my layouts.