Adding UITextField on UIView Programmatically Swift

Question

I\'m new to Swift and iOS programming. I was trying to create a UITextField programmatically using Swift but couldn\'t get it quite right. Also how do you change it

Answer 1

self.addSubview(myTextField)

Could work only, if you're working with the subclass of UIView .

You have to add it as a subview of the UIView of the ViewController's hierarchy.

var txtField: UITextField = UITextField(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 500.00, height: 30.00));
self.view.addSubview(txtField)

By default background colour is white, it just might not appear. You need to provide the style as well as text colour and background colour.

txtField.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyle.Line
txtField.text = "myString" 
txtField.backgroundColor = UIColor.redColor()

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