Order of instantiation within a NIB

FROM : John Brownlow
DATE : Mon Apr 11 19:36:31 2005

I have a main editor window which has several drawers. Each of these
drawers is quite complicated so I gave each one its own controller to
separate out the logic, although they are staying in the same NIB
because they are fundamentally connected.

Just for my own personal ease I would rather instantiate these
controllers in the NIB so I can hook them up with IBOutlets etc. But
then the question becomes, how to initialize them.

If I could rely on all the objects in the NIB being initialized when
they are created then they could initialize themselves, but I suspect
that is not how things work and so not all the objects they need will
be there when they are instantiated.

The alternative is to put the initialization in the
mainEditorWindowController which loads the NIB, but that grates because
I feel the objects should self-initialize. What is good practice here?
Should I have a -NIBDidLoad method that the windowController calls, or
a notification, or what?

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John Brownlow
Deep Fried Films, Inc

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