Question

How do I know when my GUI is ready, so I can initialize my GUI components?
I want to retrieve HTML from a server (don’t know how, so you may see a post from me concerning that) and put that in a text field (maybe UIWebView), but how do I know when the UI is ready?
I don’t want a big button with the text “RETRIEVE DATA” or something like that.
Thanks

Answer 1

- (void) awakeFromNib is what you are looking for.
Of course you want to do somethings in viewdidload as well.

From the Apple docs:

An awakeFromNib message is sent to each object loaded from the archive, but only if it can respond to the message, and only after all the objects in the archive have been loaded and initialized. When an object receives an awakeFromNib message, it is guaranteed to have all its outlet instance variables set.

if you don’t use a xib file definitely you want to use viewdidload:

This method is called after the view controller has loaded its view hierarchy into memory. This method is called regardless of whether the view hierarchy was loaded from a nib file or created programmatically in the loadView method. You usually override this method to perform additional initialization on views that were loaded from nib files.