Question

I make all my controllers in code and most of the GUI too. Some GUI’s I make with IB. I then set the file’s owner to the viewcontroller and drag an connection from the file’s owner to the view. But initWithNibName confuses me…

I am override the designated initializer to this

- (id)init {
    [super initWithNibName:nil bundle:nil];

    return self;
}

- (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil {
    return [self init];
}

Why do I not need to set which nib the viewController shall use in the init-initalizer? Because it works without. I thought I must use [super initWithNibName:@”SomeNib” bundle:nil];

In the init-initalizer

Answer 1

It works without only if your nib name is the same as your controller class name. In that case Apple does some magic. It is generally good form to specify the nib name.