Renaissance Lifecycle

Load markup programmatically during controller initialization, by calling -[NSBundle loadGSMarkupNamed:owner:]. The file’s #NSOwner reference is set to the object you pass as the owner. Call this method at the following points in your app’s lifecycle:

1. To set the main menu, load markup that defines the menu after you initialize the app delegate, but before you call NSApplicationMain.
2. To create UI that’s owned by the app delegate, load markup in your app delegate’s -applicationDidFinishLaunching: method.
3. To create UI that’s owned by a controller, for example an NSWindowController, load markup in the controller’s -init method. Don’t call methods that load other types of view files, for example, initWithWindowNibName:.

When Renaissance initializes and configures the view based on the contents of the markup file, it sends every object the -awakeFromGSMarkup message. Override this message to perform any actions after the view is configured and before someone interacts with it. Objects might receive other methods, like -windowDidLoad or -viewDidLoad, before Renaissance configures all of their connections.