Re: Custom UIView drawing but can't figure out when/where it's loading

2012-02-15 Thread H. Miersch
>> Or is my installation of Xcode screwed up? > > Probably not. Why would you think that. It's not as unlikely as it sounds. i had an issue where xcode would crash so often it became impossible to get anything done. even loading a workspace would be enough to make it crash. reinstalling xcode

Re: Custom UIView drawing but can't figure out when/where it's loading

2012-02-15 Thread Matt Neuburg
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:48:10 -0600, William Squires said: >So what's the correct place to put initialization code for a custom UIView >subclass? Depends how it's instantiated. If in code, initWithFrame. But if from a nib, initWithFrame will never be called; instead, use initWithCoder or awakeFr

Re: Custom UIView drawing but can't figure out when/where it's loading

2012-02-14 Thread Roland King
On 15 Feb, 2012, at 8:48, William Squires > AppDelegate loads the view controller and it's xib - confirmed, as the > drawRect: method in TestView does its thing (ViewController.xib's view's > class is set to TestView). But when I put an NSLog in TestView.m by adding a > -(void)viewDidLoad(

Re: Custom UIView drawing but can't figure out when/where it's loading

2012-02-14 Thread Luke Hiesterman
-viewDidLoad is a method on UIViewController - it's not something that will get called on a UIView. If you have initialization code, you should override the default initializer, -initWithFrame:. Understanding the role of view controllers and views is an important thing to have as a foundation f

Custom UIView drawing but can't figure out when/where it's loading

2012-02-14 Thread William Squires
In my sample project, I've got TestView.h TestView.m RBTestView.h RBTestView.m AppDelegate.h AppDelegate.m ViewController.h ViewController.m ViewController.xib AppDelegate loads the view controller and it's xib - confirmed, as the drawRect: method in TestView does its thing (ViewController.xib's