Getting Image on UIImageView

[Hakimo]

Hi, I'm currently making an app where the user takes a photo or select it from an album, then an overlay is placed over the image. The user can then scale, rotate and save the image.

For now, I have 2 xib files. The first one has thumbnails for overlay pictures to choose from. Clicking on on of them goes to another xib file where I have 2 UIImageViews. One for the overlay and one for the camera. Previously I just used interface builder to set an image at the attributes. But if have 20 overlays, it means I have to use 20 xibs. So I thought the best way is to add pictures through code so I can use this 2nd xib as a template for the overlays. Here's when I'm stuck. When I click on a thumbnail in the 1st xib file, how do tell the 2nd xib file to store an overlay in the UIImageView?

For the camera, I'm using

imageView.image = [info objectForKey:@"UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage"];

and it works fine. I can even save it to the album. I thought I could use the code below for the overlays but that didn't work.

UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed: @"char1.png"];

Hope someone can help. Thanks very much.

- Hakimo

[dany_dev]

this will work only if char1.png is an image in your resources

UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed: @"char1.png"];

where are the images that you want to show?

[Hakimo]

Hi Dany_dev,

Yea the images are in the resources folder. I thought it would work too I must be doing something wrong with the logic. I have a button on the 1st xib and an UIimageview in the 2nd xib. How do I tell the 2nd xib to load an image after pressing a button on the 1st one?

Just in case I haven't mention this properly. I have two UIImageViews overlapping on the 2nd xib. One is for an overlay and the other is for the camera. For some reason the camera works since I'm using "UIImagePickerControllerOriginalImage" but I can't load the overlay

Thanks very much in advance.

- Hakimo