Programmatically set image to UIImageView with Xcode 6.1/Swift

Question

I'm trying to set UIImageView programmatically in Xcode 6.1:

@IBOutlet weak var bgImage: UIImageView!  var image : UIImage = UIImage(named:"afternoon")! bgImage = UIImageView(image: image) bgImage.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 100, height: 200) view.addSubview(bgImage) 

But Xcode is saying "expected declaration" with bgImage = UIImageView(image: image) Image "afternoon"is a PNG, and my understanding is PNG does not need an extension in XCode 6.1.

Also tried just bgImage.image = UIImage(named: "afternoon"), but still get:

UPDATE

OK, I have put the code to update UIImageView into the viewDidLoad function, but UIImageView is still not showing the image (which exists in the base directory as afternoon.png):

@IBOutlet weak var bgImage: UIImageView! @IBOutlet weak var dateLabel: UILabel! @IBOutlet weak var timeLabel: UILabel!  override func viewDidLoad() {     super.viewDidLoad()     // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.      updateTime()     var timer = NSTimer()     let aSelector : Selector = "updateTime"     timer = NSTimer.scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval(0.01, target: self, selector: aSelector, userInfo: nil, repeats: true)      var image : UIImage = UIImage(named:"afternoon")!     bgImage = UIImageView(image: image) } 

Answer 1

Since you have your bgImage assigned and linked as an IBOutlet, there is no need to initialize it as a UIImageView... instead all you need to do is set the image property like bgImage.image = UIImage(named: "afternoon"). After running this code, the image appeared fine since it was already assigned using the outlet.

However, if it wasn't an outlet and you didn't have it already connected to a UIImageView object on a storyboard/xib file, then you could so something like the following...

class ViewController: UIViewController {     var bgImage: UIImageView?      override func viewDidLoad() {         super.viewDidLoad()          var image: UIImage = UIImage(named: "afternoon")!         bgImage = UIImageView(image: image)         bgImage!.frame = CGRectMake(0,0,100,200)         self.view.addSubview(bgImage!)     } }