Who should call viewDidLoad on progammatically loaded views?

Question

When I need to load a view programatically I do the following:

MyController* myController = [[MyController alloc] init];
[[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:@"myNib" owner:myController options:nil];
// use my controller here, eg. push it in the nav controller

This works fine, but my controller's viewDidLoad is never called. So I resorted to manually calling it after the loadNibNamed call, but it doesn't seem correct. I was expecting the framework to call the viewDidLoad on my behalf. Is this the right way or I'm missing something?

Answer 1

What makeds you think it wasn't called? You should never call this method from your code

Answer 2

The views are loaded lazyly by UIViewController. If you use the accessor myController.view in your code, the view should be loaded and viewDidLoad be called.

Answer 3

You should load view controllers with

MyController* myController = [[MyController alloc] initWithNibName:@"myNib" bundle:nil];

Make sure your MyController extends from UIViewController, and the View property is set properly in Interface Builder.

Answer 4

I noticed the same thing. I think ViewDidLoad must be called by the view CONTROLLER. Since you don't have a view controllr in your nib, you have to call the viewdidload manually. I"m having to do the same thing.