What happens when: viewDidLoad before drawRect?

Question

I am working on an IPhone project where I set up some drawing parameters external to view.drawRect in a procedure called -(void) reset. I call this from the viewController.viewDidLoad method to get the parameters set before the drawing occurs. But it doesn't seem that my parameters get acknowledged in the initial display of the view. Does viewDidLoad actually execute after the first execution of drawRect?

Thanks in advance for any help.

John Doner