On Oct 27, 2012, at 6:02 PM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > In general, initialization code like this in a nib-loaded object should go > into its -awakeFromNib method, which is [almost] guaranteed to be the first > method invoked on that object.
Actually, the NSTableView docs explicitly warn that this is not the case: > Important: It is possible that your datasource methods for populating the > table view may be called before awakeFromNib is called if the datasource is > specified in Interface Builder. You should defend against this by having the > datasource’s numberOfRowsInTableView: method return 0 for the number of rows > when the datasource has not yet been configured. In awakeFromNib, when the > datasource is initialized you should always call reloadData on the table view. Initialize your instance variable in -init, which *is* guaranteed to be the first method called on your object. --Kyle Sluder _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com