Very basic Objective-C Question

Question

Okay, I am completely new to Objective-C so forgive me.
I am trying to run a command when the MainView is initially loaded, so I figured I would need to override the constructor. I tried overriding init and initWithFrame, but it didn't work.
How can I get a command to run (sendDate = [NSDate date];) when the UIView is initially loaded?
Thanks a bunch.

Answer 1

Let's take a step back for a second. Are you using Interface Builder (IB) with XViewController?
Usually with a UIViewController there is no separate UIView class. At least not with the code I've written. A view controller creates its own view. If using IB then the view is created from the XIB file. There is no actual UIView class on the file system or in your project.
So what ends up happening is the UIViewController loads the view and the view controller's 'viewDidLoad' method gets called. It is usually here that you finish off setting up the view. You access the view using 'self.view' inside the view controller code.
But you seem to have an actual class named MainView that is a UIView. And it appears that class has an instance variable of 'sendDate'. Did you create this class by hand? If so then you must have explicit code for creating it. Where is this code?
This is one of those details that I could explain is 5 seconds in person after seeing what you were doing. But online I can't, of course, see what you are really doing.