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copied!<p>I'm learning Objective-C, and ran into something which doesn't make sense to me. </p> <p>When we have a view controller (VC) drawn in Storyboard, you can call this VC via code by entering a string into the Storyboard ID (click on the VC in Storyboard, in Utilities sidebar, Identity Inspector tab, Identity section) using the instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier method.</p> <p>In my example, I've drawn a standalone UIViewController in Storyboard and set Storyboard ID to "orderList". In the code, I can call this view by this code, <strong>Code1</strong>:</p> <pre><code>UIViewController *ordersVC = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"orderList"]; </code></pre> <p>If I create a subclass of UIViewController called "SCVCOrders", and insert some code into it that modifies how it looks - like setting a title or changing the background color I thought I'd be able to use this code <strong>Code2</strong> to combine the drawn VC with the code in SCVCOrders:</p> <pre><code>SCVCOrders *ordersVC = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"orderList"]; </code></pre> <p>But it doesn't combine them. It only uses what is drawn in the Storyboard. So next, in Storyboard, I set the drawn VC's class to SCVCOrders. Now <strong>Code2</strong> gives me the combined look, but so does <strong>Code1</strong>. My conclusion from this is that Storyboard is taking precedence over the instantiation code. Xcode doesn't care what class I code the view to be, it will just look at Storyboard for this. Is this correct?</p> <p>I imagine it would be useful to have ability to layer my code on top of what I draw in Storyboard. Using my example, I'd like to leave my drawn VC as the generic class. And use <strong>Code2</strong> to layer code on top of the drawn VC. Or how else can we achieve something like this?</p>

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