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Champa
Champa

Reputation: 615

Value of type '[UILabel]' has no member 'text'

//  ViewController.swift
//  FunFacts
//
//  Created by Moises Miguel Hernandez on 11/27/17.
//  Copyright © 2017 Moises Miguel Hernandez. All rights reserved.
//

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    @IBOutlet var funFactLabel: [UILabel]!


    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        funFactLabel.text = "An Interesting Fact"

    }

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
        // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
    }//end of recive memory warning


}//end of viewController

I am using Xcode and Swift 4. I am just starting out and taking a course from team treehouse.

In the video tutorial they easily did the funFactLabel.text = "Some Fun fact"

When I try to do that it gives me this error:

Value of type '[UILabel]' has no member 'text'

I don't think I am doing anything wrong. I just want to change the text of the label to say: "Some Fun Fact".

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5905

Answers (4)

Salman Ghumsani
Salman Ghumsani

Reputation: 3657

It seems like you have made an OutletCollection If you made an OutletCollection it will always an array try to choose only Outlet.

See here:

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OutletCollection 

@IBOutlet var funFactLabel: [UILabel]!

Outlet 

@IBOutlet var funFactLabel: UILabel!

Upvotes: 0

Sharad Chauhan
Sharad Chauhan

Reputation: 4891

Your funFactLabel is an array of UILabel.

Either do this :

@IBOutlet var funFactLabel: UILabel!

Or this but for this you have to take an array and you have to append your labes in it. You can't make an IBOutlet as an array:

override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        for label in funFactLabel{
           label.text = "An Interesting Fact"
         }


    }

But I why an array of label as IBOutlet ? Never saw someone doing that. For each label take one IBOutlet.

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Right click on label and Drag Referencing Outlets always, 2nd one. Ignore Course Detail, that's just text for my UILabel.

Upvotes: 1

Ankur Lahiry
Ankur Lahiry

Reputation: 2315

You declared funFactLabel as an array of labels.

replace the line 

@IBOutlet var funFactLabel: [UILabel]!

by

@IBOutlet var funFactLabel: UILabel!

Upvotes: 2

TMob
TMob

Reputation: 1278

Your problem is that [UILabel] is an array of UILabels. Everything in braces [] is an array. So you could have an array of strings: [String]

Just change the type to a plain UILabel like so:

@IBOutlet var funFactLabel: UILabel!

Upvotes: 3

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