UIView - How to get notified when the view is loaded?

Question

Is there anything similar to the viewDidLoad of UIViewController for a UIView??? I need to be notified as soon as a UIView has loaded (Subclass of UIView), and perform some actions.

Lamori

Answer 1

Depending on what kind of actions you need to perform, there are several techniques:

1. -(id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame - UIView's designated initializer; always sent to a UIView to initialize it, unless the view is loaded from a nib;
2. -(id)initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)coder - always sent to initialize a UIView whenever the view is loaded from a nib;
3. -(void)awakeFromNib - sent after all the objects in the nib are initialized and connected; applicable only if you load the object from a nib; you must call super;
4. -(void)willMoveToSuperview:(UIView *)newSuperview - sent immediately before the view is added as a subview to another view; newSuperview may be nil when you remove the view from its superview;
5. -(void)willMoveToWindow:(UIWindow *)newWindow - sent immediately before the view (or its superview) is added to a window; newWindow may be nil when you remove the view from a window;
6. -(void)didMoveToSuperview - sent immediately after the view is inserted into a view hierarchy;
7. -(void)didMoveToWindow - sent immediately after the view gets its window property set. -

Basically, you can choose to perform your actions during initialization (1 & 2), after loading from a nib (3), before insertion into a view hierarchy (4 & 5) and after that (6 & 7).

Nikolai

Thanks a lot perfect answer (very detailed). I was modifying a segmented control and it wasn't displaying the changes because I was calling the modification method during init, I moved it to didMoveToWindow and it fixed all the problems – Lamori

It seems all of this happened before viewDidLoad in viewController – Aubry

-(void)willMoveToSuperview:(UIView *)newSuperview was the cure to all my problems, thank you very much! – Rosannrosanna

I forgot again that some things do not work if you keep caling them inside a UIView at the very beginning of the initialization process..... So doing it in 7 or performing with delay from there will always work! :) – Adoptive