I have a collectionview and I want to use a xib as the header. However, the xib will not appear. First I tried adding a label to the xib, which didn't appear. Then I set the whole background color to red. It it doesn't appear. The collectionview items leave a gap for the header, but it's completely blank. Similar SO threads are this and this, but as I'm not using storyboards and my header height is greater than zero, they don't solve my issue. Here is all my relevant code:
#import "ScoreboardCollectionViewController.h"
#import "ScoreboardCollectionViewCell.h"
#import "ScoreboardReusableView.h"
#import "ScoreboardModel.h"
#import "Scoreboard.h"
...
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
// Register cell classes
UINib *cellNib = [UINib nibWithNibName:@"ScoreboardCollectionViewCell" bundle:nil];
[self.collectionView registerNib:cellNib forCellWithReuseIdentifier:@"cell"];
[self.collectionView registerClass:[ScoreboardReusableView class] forSupplementaryViewOfKind:UICollectionElementKindSectionHeader withReuseIdentifier:@"scoreboardHeader"];
self.collectionView.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"dark_fish_skin_"]];
}
...
- (CGSize)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView layout:(UICollectionViewLayout*)collectionViewLayout referenceSizeForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
return CGSizeMake(self.view.frame.size.width, 34);
}
- (UICollectionReusableView *)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView
viewForSupplementaryElementOfKind:(NSString *)kind
atIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
ScoreboardReusableView *view = [[ScoreboardReusableView alloc] init];
view = [collectionView dequeueReusableSupplementaryViewOfKind:UICollectionElementKindSectionHeader
withReuseIdentifier:@"scoreboardHeader"
forIndexPath:indexPath];
return view;
}
Here is a screenshot of my xib:
OK, I solved it. The problem was that in my viewDidLoad
method I had
[self.collectionView registerClass:[ScoreboardReusableView class] forSupplementaryViewOfKind:UICollectionElementKindSectionHeader withReuseIdentifier:@"scoreboardHeader"];
when since I was using a nib, it should have been:
[self.collectionView registerNib:[UINib nibWithNibName:@"ScoreboardReusableView" bundle:nil]
forSupplementaryViewOfKind:UICollectionElementKindSectionHeader
withReuseIdentifier:@"scoreboardHeader"];
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