On Feb 15, 2010, at 7:18 AM, Ashley Clark wrote:

> For objects that were saved in a NIB file -initWithFrame: is usually not 
> what's called to recreate them (there are some exceptions that I don't 
> remember off the top of my head). Since NIBs are essentially archives most of 
> the views stored within them are recreated via -initWithCoder:

Right. Setup code for objects from nibs should usually go in -awakeFromNib.

> As for the drawRect: override, it was my understanding that the IK*View 
> objects didn't do any of their drawing in drawRect: but instead were done via 
> CALayers. I could be misinformed on this point though.

Right again, basically, although I think they use direct OpenGL for drawing. 
This unfortunately makes it extremely difficult to customize the display of 
these views, since the OpenGL surface covers up any regular drawing. I tried 
pretty hard to extend the image-browser a few years ago and eventually gave up.

—Jens

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