Access controls in NSView

Hi, I am using Cocoa with Obj-C on XCode 2.4.1
I have a 4 views (with different controls in each of the view) added to NIB and accessing it through Controller. I am able to show different views whenever toolbar buttons are clicked.
I want to set the controls with some default values at the time of showing the view. For setting these controls in views, apart from awakeFromNib & windowDidLoad what are the other methods where I can set the controls. Will there be anything like constructor for view? How to set?

satya.