On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:07:54 -1000, Dave Keck <davek...@gmail.com> said:
>> Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I'm wondering, why not put everything into a
>> single method and call that method from both initWithFrame and awakeFromNib?
>> One and only one of these will be called (depending whether you are
>> instantiating in code or in a nib), so your single method will be called
>> exactly once and you're off to the races. m.
>
>This isn't true for 10.5; both -initWithFrame: and -awakeFromNib are
>called if the view was instantiated via the NIB machinery. I suspect
>10.6 is no different.

OK, but in that case I would use a flag to make sure that my single method
is called no more than once.

I don't know whether this applies to the OP's actual use case; I'm just
saying, when I am not sure which of several routines will be called or in
what order and I want to make sure a certain thing happens, I just factor
out that certain thing. m.

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