Cocoa performClick: in awakeFromNib not working

Question

Hello,

Im trying to call performClick: from awakeFromNib and its not working. I think its because it needs a sender and awakeFromNib has no sender. I have tried using nil,self and sender as the sender of performClick: but none seem to work. My code is

- (void)awakeFromNib {
[myButton performClick:sender];
}

Can anyone think of a work around for this? Thanks for any help

Answer 1

You should always call [super awakeFromNib] because you never know what the super class is doing.

awakeFromNib is a bad place to put performClick: because although everything is loaded and initialized, there is no guarantee everything has been enabled and is visible. If a button is disabled or hidden, it will ignore the performClick message.

Answer 2

You probably haven't hooked up your qcview outlet. Everything you've said is consistent with sending a message to nil, which does nothing and returns nil, Nil, NULL, NO, 0, or 0.0.