Can a UIView be a UITextField Delegate

I am getting a sigabrt error when I try to set the delegate of my UITextField to my UIView class. I have used the UITextFieldDelgate Protocal. here is my code

    nameField = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(130, 40, 200, 30)];
    [nameField setDelegate:self];
    nameField.placeholder = @"<Game Name>";
    nameField.textAlignment = UITe开发者_如何学运维xtAlignmentCenter;
    [self addSubview:nameField];

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You are about to use UITextField in constructor, not UILabel. Replace your first string with the following:

nameField = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(130, 40, 200, 30)];