Question

I am a little curious, I have a view controller class and an NIB/XIB (both are named “MapViewController”) If I do the following it loads the NIB with the matching name.

-(id)init {
    self = [super initWithNibName:@"MapViewController" bundle:nil];
    if(self) {
        do things ...
    }
    return self;
}

if on the other hand I just specify [super init] does Xcode just look for a NIB that matches the name of the controller, is that how this is working?

-(id)init {
    self = [super init];
    if(self) {
        do things ...
    }
    return self;
}

cheers Gary.

Answer 1

From the documentation:

If you specify nil for the nibName
parameter and do not override the
loadView method in your custom
subclass, the default view controller
behavior is to look for a nib file
whose name (without the .nib
extension) matches the name of your
view controller class. If it finds
one, the class name becomes the value
of the nibName property, which results
in the corresponding nib file being
associated with this view controller.