ios - Creating multiple Custom Views from XIB and adding them programmatically into ViewController -

i start off describing i'm trying accomplish , follow describing i've tried already. pretty sure i've tried not best approach please correct approach needed!

i have viewcontroller.m , custom view laid out in customview.xib. custom view has uibuttons , uilabels populated array of custom objects.

the user flow should go such: viewcontroller starts off showing customview labels populated

customobjectarray[0] -> user presses button -> "copy" of customview slides view, on previous version.

it's labels , buttons populated customobjectarray[1] -> user presses button -> repeat until end of array.

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so far made viewcontroller.m/h, customview.m/h , customview.xib file. used interface builder layout.

on "custom class" tab top-level view in xib file, type in "customview". drag iboutlets xib file customview header (.h) file.

in viewcontroller, under -(instancetype) init method, create custom view using normal initwithnib method. , do:

self.view = customviewvariablename;  

when run program, view show's fine. however, when try selector's, nothing's getting recognized buttons:

[currentcustomview.continuebutton addtarget:self action:@selector(continuebuttonpressed:) forcontrolevents:uicontroleventtouchupinside]; 

what did wrong here?

more importantly, given described goals top, doing right? need have customview.m/h files? or can same thing xib , viewcontroller file. remember need have "multiple copies" , slide them on top of each other until end of custom objects array.

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in viewcontroller:

- (instancetype)init {     currentcustomview = [[[nsbundle mainbundle] loadnibnamed:@"customview" owner:self options:nil] objectatindex:0];     self.view = currentquizquestionview;      .......      return self; }  - (void)viewdidload {     [super viewdidload];     // additional setup after loading view nib.      [currentcustomview.continuebutton addtarget:self action:@selector(continuepressed:) forcontrolevents:uicontroleventtouchupinside]; }  -(void)continuepressed:(id)sender{      nslog(@"current position");     //[self moveinquestion]; } 

in customview.h:

#import <uikit/uikit.h>  @interface customview : uiview @property (weak, nonatomic) iboutlet uibutton *continuebutton; @end 

in customview.m:

this default page, added nothing in file.

customview.xib:

i'm not sure if understand requirements. let's assume have several customviews subviews of viewcontroller , subviews can display each each after pressing own button.

first thing adding subview:

self.view = customviewvariablename;  

since customsviews subviews according assumption, above line error. have this.

for (nsinteger = 0; < 5; i++) {     customview *v = [[customview alloc] initwithnib];     [v.button addtarget:self                  action:@selector(continuepressed:)        forcontrolevents:uicontroleventtouchupinside];     [self.view addsubview:v]; } 

second, noticed have array handler refer subviews. can add above customview mutable array insert 1 more line above for-loop.

[_customobjectarray addobject:v.button]; 

finally, created simple project , tried implement things mentioned. maybe can take reference. https://db.tt/och2tzyg