Why is my popup view is empty?

Question

I am trying to make a popup view similar to this one. What I have done so far is:

• Open a new single view project.
• Added a button to the main view.
• Added a new xib file named "popup.xib"
• Added a new swift file named "PopupViewController.swift"
• At the identity tab I made the first responders class to be "PopupViewController"
• I put in the popup.xib a label, a button and a view with different background colour. Of course everything has constraints about where it should appear.

My code:

ViewController.swift

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    @IBAction func showPopup(sender: AnyObject) {
        var x = PopupViewController()
        x.show(self.view)
        x.showAnimate()
    }
}

PopupViewController

import UIKit

class PopupViewController : UIViewController {

    func show(tView : UIView) {
        tView.addSubview(self.view)
        println("here")
        self.view.backgroundColor = UIColor.redColor()

    }

    func showAnimate() {
        self.view.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(1.0, 1.0)
        self.view.alpha = 0.3
    }

}

The result: When the button is pressed I get a redish overlay on the view (because the view I added is red and has 30% opacity), but the new view is empty. No button, no label, no area with different colour.

What do I have to do to make the popup.xib show it's elements?

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Update

I was missing the connection between the File's Owner and the main view in addition to Nerkyators answer. Just right click the "File's Onwer" and from view drag to the main view that is two lines below it.

Answer 1

You need to load manually the xib associated to your view. I use this extensions (found at this link) modified to support UIViewController and then I call it when needed.

extension UIViewController {
    class func loadFromNibNamed(nibNamed: String, bundle : NSBundle? = nil) -> Self? {
        return UINib(
            nibName: nibNamed,
            bundle: bundle
            ).instantiateWithOwner(nil, options: nil)[0] as? UIViewController
    }
}

then

@IBAction func showPopup(sender: AnyObject) {
    var x = PopupViewController.loadFromNibNamed("popup")
    //do what you need with x
}