CPPL / NibDesignable

Elegant way of enabling IBDesignable on your nib-based views

Nib Designable

Installation

CocoaPods

Add pod 'NibDesignable' to your Podfile

Carthage

Add github "mbogh/NibDesignable" to your Cartfile.

Manual

Simply drop NibDesignable.swift into your project and it is ready to use.

Usage

1. Create a new class that subclass' NibDesignable like

class CustomView: NibDesignable {

}

2. Create a nib, place a UIView and change the File's Owner to CustomView

   Correct:

   

   Incorrect:

   

3. Design your view and add @IBInspectable properties.

4. Sometimes Xcode/Interface Builder does not recognize NibDesignable as @IBDesignable. Workaround Declare your custom class as @IBDesignable like:

@IBDesignable
class CustomView: NibDesignable {

}

Thanks

• Donkey.jpg - cobalt123 - Baby Burro in Oatman, Arizona licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
• klngarthur

Contact

Follow me on Twitter (@mbogh) and/or visit my blog Just a Beech

License

Nib Designable is released under an MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.

Release Notes

Version 3.0.0

• Swift 3.0 support, thanks to @sstadelman and @esetnik

Version 2.3.0

• UICollectionReusableView support added by @ikesyo

Version 2.2.0

• UICollectionViewCell support added by @pyankoff

Version 2.1.0

• UIControl support added by @illaz

Version 2.0.0

• Swift 2.0 for everyone, thanks to @bjarkehs

Version 1.1.1

• Fixed minor issue with UITableViewCell

Version 1.1.0

• Added support for UITableViewCells, thanks to @duemunk

Version 1.0.4

• Swift 1.2 support, thanks to @ikesyo

Version 1.0.3

• Switched to Auto Layout in setupNib(). This fixes issues when views have size of {0,0} initially.

Version 1.0.2

• CocoaPods support

Version 1.0.1

• proxyView is passe.
• nibName() returns class name per default.

Version 1.0.0

• Initial release