Connecting Dynamically Created Subviews to IBOutlet

Question

I have UIImage Subviews that are created while the App is running

     UIImageView *newBlock = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:
                             [UIImage imageNamed:@"image.png"]];
    newBlock.frame = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 58.0, 58.0);
    self.view.userInteractionEnabled = YES;
    [self.view addSubview:newBlock];

However because they do not exist in the Interface Builder (or at least I can't find them) I cannot connect my IBOutlet to the new images so they move based on a timer

 timer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:(0.001) target:self selector:@selector(onTimer) userInfo:nil repeats:YES];
pos = CGPointMake(0.0,0.05);

...

- (void) onTimer {

blocks.center = CGPointMake(blocks.center.x+pos.x,blocks.center.y+pos.y)

I've been considering a way to link them via code and not in the Interface Builder however have not found any details to date on how this is done. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Answer 1

You can't connect a view with the interface builder programatically, if I were you I'd try to think of a different approach to your problem.

Answer 2

You can't dynamically connect them to IBOutlets. Why not simply store all the instances in an array as variables ?

NSMutableArray *imageViews = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithCapacity: X];

...

[imageViews addObject: imageView];

...

for(UIView *view in imageViews)
{
   ...
}