Nib file question

@implementation HelloView
- (id)initWithFrame:(NSRect)frame
    self = [super initWithFrame:frame];
    if (self) {
        // Initialization code here.
    return self;
What does this code initialize? I thought it called an object in the foundation code, but apparently it's an object that has been placed in a nib file?

Okay, so NSWindow is actually not an NSViewClass object?
I could instantiate a window with NSWindow code, or else use NSView in conjunction with the nib file which will instantiate the NSWindow object into an NSView object, which can then be subclassed into the application. Is that right?

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Simple nib file question

I believe that all the examples I've seen of nib/xib files have been connections to the corresponding controller or view files, or to the app delegate and the main window,
Please correct me if I'm wrong, I might just be tired and missing an important clue
I'm using a Utility Application template, and have most of my work done using the MainView and MainViewController. I'd like to now work on the FlipsideView and FlipsideViewController to display and/or manipulate status and options, which is already in instances/classes in the MainView and MainViewController type.
How do I access data in the other View, ViewController, or app delegate by connecting buttons and fields from my FlipsideView?
This may be a "duh! Oh Yeah" question/answer, as in just examine how the FlipsideView is connected to the MainViewController. However, I could use a little leading and pointing here.
In my test app, I've already created a number of labels for static info, or to hold the value of a field in the other class instances. I'm just trying to figure out how to make the connections. I do have a few of the data elements setup with IBOutlets already.

When the controllers of separate nibs need to communicate with each other, the best solution depends on the structure of the program and how many controllers are involved. Luckily the discussion gets much easier if we restrict it to the nibs in the Utility template. However, the Utility template that came with SDK 3.0 is quite different from the 2.x version. I'll start with 3.0.
With the 3.0 Utility template you have a built in communication channel because the flipside view controller is the modal child of the main view controller. That means flipsideViewController.parentController points to mainViewController. And mainViewController.modalViewController points to flipsideViewController.
So for example, if textField1 is in the main view, and label1 is in the flipside view:
// in FlipsideViewController.m
self.label1.text = parentViewController.textField1.text;
Note however that communication in the other direction is limited to the time the flipside view is active. While mainViewController will always exist when the flipside view covers it, the flipsideViewController is released when its view is dismissed. So in order to export info from flipside to main, you might have the flipside controller save the data ahead of time. For example if the mainViewController needs the text from label2 which is on the flipside:
// in FlipSideController.m
parentViewController.copyOfLabel2 = self.label2.text;
You also mentioned getting data from the app delegate. The app delegate is accessible from any object in the program precisely because it's "the shared application object's delegate". So for example, if mainViewController is an instance variable (with a matching property) of the app delegate, a method of any object in the program could obtain a pointer to the mainViewController, and thus any objects in its view:
// in AnyClass.m
#include "MyAppDelegate.h"
#include "MainViewController.h"
- (NSString*)getTextField1 {
myAppDelegate *delegate = [UIApplication sharedApplication].delegate;
MainViewController *mainViewController = delegate.mainViewController;
return mainViewController.textField1.text;
The solution for the 2.x version of the Utility template is based on the fact that both the main and flipside controllers are children of a root view controller. I'll wait to find out which version you have before dealing with the 2.x template.
Hope that helps!
- Ray

Can i create a home window without using a NIB file

I hate interface builder, it is a really counter-intuitive piece of junk. Please don't try to convince me otherwise I prefer to do it all in code. Right now i have my whole product running dynamically, creating all the interface objects programmatically as my positioning is all calculated on the fly.
However I still have one NIB file (MainWindow.NIB) that creates the home window and somehow links to my AppDelegate class, which is the startup class for my app. I see that my main.c routine calls UIApplicationMain() which somehow loads the main nib (hidden magic here), and then eventually my AppDelegate() method which is of calss UIWindow() gets called with an initialize() call followed by applicationDidFinishLaunching() call and off we go.
Can I create the window dynamically by not using NIBs? Now that we have ipad and iphone to contend with, I would want to create a window that is either 320 x 480 or 768 x 1024 depending on what machine I am on. I would like to get rid of the NIB because I don't understand the wiring stuff and I tried to make a NIB myself but now get a cryptic error message, and anyway the NIB has a fixed size and my app wants to be dynamic now that we have two screen sizes.
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Switch between Nib files

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I am struggling with a functionality which I thought of as "simple" at first. A little background:
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I've recently stumbled across a problem. Several of OS X bundled applications are no longer functioning due to uncaught exceptions in the application.
1) Mail.app throws an exception and terminates when trying to open an e-mail message:
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However, since I have split the projects up, my original project crashes when it loads main.xib because it cannot find one of the custom classes which is defined in the library project.
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Dear Adobe Community,
I have a big problem... When finally I've uploaded the Binary file of my App to iTunnes Conect, I've received several emails like this from Apple after several attempts:
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I am concerned about the process of unzipping and rezipping the file as there may be issues with encryption?
In addition there are a number of other *~ipad.nib files included in the app build which we have not renamed - however it seems logical that they may also be affected.
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WARNING!!! NSWindow Nib files

WARNING!!!!
1) You cannot access a nib file programatically in any case!
2) You cannot create an NSWindow from within its NSWindowController!
3) You cannot 'show' an NSWindow from within an NSWindow (you must use an NSWindowController to 'show' an NSWindow)!
One of the biggest hindrances to learning the manuals is that there are so few warnings on what you cannot do.

Maybe different things are tricky for different people. The three points I listed would have saved me hours of frustration if I had known them before I started reading on views.
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