UITextView member variable is always nil in my UIViewController

Question

In my nib, I have a UITextView component.

In my UIViewController I have a UITextView member field and I have used IB to make sure

Answer 1

I can't see agere you are calling setText, but I think that you try to do it in the initializer. GUI code should not be done before the viewDidLoad in the case of using XIB's or loadView if you make your GUI programatically, or the other viewWill/viewDid... methods.

The reason is because the views are not loaded before they are actually needed, it is called lazy loading. You should Google that for more info.