Endless recursive calls to initWithCoder when instantiating xib in storyboard

Question

In order to re-use a certain subview throughout my application (which is storyboard based), I decided to build the subview as a nib, and load it in. To do this, I have done

Answer 1

Did you happen to set the View's "Custom Class" in your .xib file to "Widget"?

That would explain the behaviour you're seeing, because initWithCoder: is the initializer for all things loaded from a xib:

1. Your parent view, which contains a Widget object, is loaded from the xib
2. The Widget's initWithCoder: method gets called, and tries to load the Widget xib
3. The Widget xib contains a UIView with the Custom Class "Widget", so again, a Widget object is being initialized with initWithCoder:, etc.

If that is indeed the case, all you have to do is remove the "Custom Class" entry for the UIView in your Widget's xib.

Answer 2

I had same problem. My mistake was in empty File's Owner class. In File's Owner custom class must be NOT empty (Widget), and root view must be empty.

IBActions and IBOutlets were fine.