Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / January 2006

Hello,

I am using cocoa, xcode, and objective c on 10.4.

How can I get code to run when my application starts up?  Specifically,
I'd like to fill a NSTableView with the contents of the user's
'Documents' folder when my app starts... any ideas on how to accomplish
this?

I'm not so worried about getting the list of files, but I am not sure
how to do *anything* when the application first starts up.  (It would
be possible to perform the action when the window opens, since my app
has only one window, but I don't know how to do this either...)

Mainly a Java programmer, I would like to simply overwrite the
constructor (I believe this would be called init in objective c?) to
perform some tasks after all the components in the window are
themselves initialized.  But when I "subclass NSWindow" in Interface
Builder I can't seem to be able to instantiate it... In general, would
I be able to lay out a GUI in Interface Builder in a window that
subclasses NSWindow?

Thanks alot for the help!

-Rob Crowell