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[rhimbo]

Hi folks,

I wrote a UIViewController sub-class that builds its view "manually". That is, I do not use a nib file created in IB to build the view. That is, I think I'm not using the nib. I suspect there is something I don't understand about the initialization process....

I have a nib file in my project because I created one and used it before. Now that I coded up the controller's view by hand I am initializing my view controller as follows, passing "nil" to both parameters in my call to -initWithNibName:bundle: (presumably not using the nib):

- (id) initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil 
{
   self = [super initWithNibName:nibNameOrNil bundle:nibBundleOrNil]; 
   
   if (self) 
   {
      self.title = @"View controller title";
      
      NSBundle *bundle = [NSBundle mainBundle]; 
      NSString *legalDisclaimerFilePath = [bundle pathForResource:@"disclaimer" ofType:@"txt"]; 
      NSString *disclaimerText = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:legalDisclaimerFilePath]; 
      
      UIScreen *screen = [UIScreen mainScreen];
      CGRect applicationFrame = screen.applicationFrame;
      
      ...
      // rest of view definition code goes here.
    }

}

I call this code with the following statement:

UIViewController *legalNoticeViewController = [[LegalNoticeViewController alloc] initWithNibName:nil bundle:nil];

I'm passing "nil" to both parameters. So why is my nib file still being executed and loaded? On screen in the simulator I see the visual elements defined in both the nib file and in the code above that I construct programmatically.

Previously I was using the nib file via the following call:

UIViewController *legalNoticeViewController = [[LegalNoticeViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"LegalNoticeViewController" bundle:nil];

But I am no longer using this call, instead using the one above it where I pass "nil". I did a "clean all" in my project. Is there some remnant binary with which my project is still being linked?

I suspect I don't understand something fundamental to the whole UIViewController initialization process. Could someone explain what happens in the UIViewController class in regards to how -init, -initWithNibName:bundle: gets called? I think that might be the problem and I don't understand the initialization sequence.

Many thanks,