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From: dennisg@kgw2.UUCP (Dennis Glatting)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: window object and awake method
Summary: awake method
Keywords: window awake
Message-ID: <306@kgw2.UUCP>
Date: 7 Dec 89 18:08:44 GMT
References: <128@kgw2.UUCP> <12934@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Xetron Corp, Cincinnati Ohio
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In article <12934@polya.Stanford.EDU>, ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer) writes:
> In article <128@kgw2.UUCP> dennisg@kgw2.UUCP (Dennis Glatting) writes:
> >its finishUnarchiving method.  what's wrong?
> 
> The best is to have a common initialization routine that is called by both 
> your new methods and the read/awake pair.  This way the initailization will
> get done properly no matter how the object is created.
> 

i've overrode the getNewContent method but the controls and other objects
aren't allocated at that point.  i need to manipulate some of those
objects (since i'm inserting some custom objects).  since i have multiple
.nib files being loaded on demand, i believe i can work around the problem
by overriding the getNewContent method then calling a myAwake method after
it is read in.   if there is an established technique, like awake, then
that is what i preferr to use.  

so when a .nib file is loaded the file's contents aree a template.  does
this imply that, since i currently override the getNewContent method, that
the objects i create after [super..] vanish?  (i guess what i'm really
asking is whether the object created with getNewContent is the object or
is it copied?)  could you point me in a direction that i could educate
myself better on this process?

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