I have another issue related to Views, and i\'ve ended up here dealing with Views and Windows in general. My understanding of all the fundamentals of iPhone development has been
The Window-based Application
template provides just an application delegate and a window.
A View-based application
will start you off with an application delegate and a window, as well as a view.
Your application doesn't show a Window because the view that you are (most likely) viewing and editing now is loaded by the Window, which is in a separate XIB.