title: Accessing View in awakeFromNib?
body: <p>I have been trying to set a UIImageView background color (see below) in awakeFromNib</p>
  
  <pre><code>[imageView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:0 green:0 blue:0 alpha:1.0]];
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When it did not work, I realised that its probably because the view has not loaded yet and I should move the color change to viewDidLoad.</p>
  
  <p>Can I just verify that I have this right?</p>
  
  <p>gary</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT_002:</strong></p>
  
  <p>I have just started a fresh project to check this from a clean start. I setup the view the same as I always do. The results are that the controls are indeed set to (null) in the awakeFromNib. Here is what I have:</p>
  
  <p>CODE:</p>
  
  <pre><code>@interface iPhone_TEST_AwakeFromNibViewController : UIViewController {
      UILabel *myLabel;
      UIImageView *myView;
  }
  @property(nonatomic, retain)IBOutlet UILabel *myLabel;
  @property(nonatomic, retain)IBOutlet UIImageView *myView;
  @end
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>.</p>
  
  <pre><code>@synthesize myLabel;
  @synthesize myView;
  
  -(void)awakeFromNib {
      NSLog(@"awakeFromNib ...");
      NSLog(@"myLabel: %@", [myLabel class]);
      NSLog(@"myView : %@", [myView class]);
      //[myLabel setText:@"AWAKE"];
      [super awakeFromNib];
  
  }
  
  -(void)viewDidLoad {
      NSLog(@"viewDidLoad ...");
      NSLog(@"myLabel: %@", [myLabel class]);
      NSLog(@"myView : %@", [myView class]);
      //[myLabel setText:@"VIEW"];
      [super viewDidLoad];
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>OUTPUT:</p>
  
  <pre><code>awakeFromNib ...
  myLabel: (null)
  myView : (null)
  viewDidLoad ...
  myLabel: UILabel
  myLabel: UIImageView
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would be interested to know if this should work, from the docs it looks like it should, but given the way I usually set things up I can't quite understand why it does not in this case.</p>