This document outline from my sample Storyboard shows what I'm working with.

![document outline](https://i443.photobucket.com/albums/qq160/je44ery/technical/ScreenShot2012-10-19at60446PM.png)

I have a custom container view controller and two content view controllers connected via embed segues.

Here is the storyboard itself.

![storyboard summary](https://i443.photobucket.com/albums/qq160/je44ery/technical/ScreenShot2012-10-19at61303PM.png)

ZetaViewController has to create some programmatic views (within ZetaView, of course). I noticed when I was centering these programmatically created views they seemed really off center.

ZetViewController is centering things by examining *self.view.bounds.size.height* and *self.view.bounds.size.width* and doing some appropriate arithmetic.

When I added debug logging to ZetaViewController, I noticed that *self.view.bounds.size.height* and *self.view.bounds.size.width* had dimensions equal to ContainerView (768 x 1004) and **not** ZetaView (728 x 637). The Size Inspector in IB confirms these values.

I created a distinctive value for the tag attribute of ZetaView and logged it. ZetaViewController.view *really* is ZetaView because the tag value confirms it.

So what is going on? Why would ZetaView, shown clearly with smaller dimensions on the Storyboard and in the Size Inspector, show the wrong values in it's properties during run time?