On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 7:43 PM, David Blanton <aired...@tularosa.net> wrote: > Class A is a subclass of NSView > Class B is a subclass of Class A > > Class A and Class B are in a NIB.
Classes don't live in nibs. You mean an object of class A and an object of class B live in the nib. > Class A as an Object - the blue cube > Class B as a view in a window. So your instance of A and your instance of B are entirely unrelated. > > When the program runs: > > Class A's init method is called > Class B's awakeFromNib is called > Class A's awakeFromNib is called Class B will have been initialized with -initWithFrame:, as documented in the Resource Programming Guide: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/DOCUMENTATION/Cocoa/Conceptual/LoadingResources/CocoaNibs/CocoaNibs.html As the documentation explains, your instance of class A is encoded as an object placeholder, whereas your instance of class B has been encoded as a custom view placeholder. --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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com