Explain awakeFromNib and initwithFrame: usage

Question

I am going through the Stanford iPhone dev lectures on iTunes and ran into this in Lecture 5.

We are trying to ensure a redraw will be done when the device rotates. I ha

Answer 1

awakeFromNib is called by NSBundle when it finishes loading your nib.

You've actually got two different code paths your code can take when initializing a view, depending on whether it's loaded from a nib or created at runtime.

• If it's loaded from a nib, part of the loading will initialize it by calling initWithCoder:, followed by a later call of awakeFromNib after all the outlets have been connected.

• If you create the view programmatically, you initialize it with initWithFrame: instead (and awakeFromNib is never called because it wasn't loaded from a nib).

Answer 2

Firstly, initWitFrame will initialize what ever you using with a given rectangular space CGRect is the coordinate position. Read on CGRectMake. The basic idea is CGRectMake(CGFloat x, CGFloat y, CGFloat width, CGFloat height)

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