size of UIView object returned as zero under autolayout

Question

I'm re-writting an app under IOS6 with autolayout but have problems accessing the size of a subclass of UIView

@property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet MyView *myView1;

in

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view.
    NSLog(@"myView1: %@",self.myView1);
}

The size of the UIView is fully defined in the StoryBoard but comes out as zero when I run the code. Is this todo with auto layout or is the subview simply not defined yet? Am I doing something basically wrong here?

Answer 1

Just found one possible answer here. Running the methods

[self.view setNeedsLayout];
[self.view layoutIfNeeded];

forces a calculation of UIViews dimensions causing the expected values to appear in the log and also be known unto the UIView subclass itself.