Help with Cocoa app initialization method

Generally you'd run most of your app's initialization either from -awakeFromNib (for objects in nib files) or NSApp's delegate in -applicationWillFinishLaunching:

 

+initialize is called before the class or object receives its first message. This likely isn't the place you want to initialize variables for your objects, since you can't get access to ivars from a class method. -init, -awakeFromNib, or -applicationDidFinishLaunching: are typical places for doing this.

 

I usually call -init to do all my initializations. I used to put everything in -awakeFromNib, but I feel like a noob putting everything in there. Use something like this to initialize your variables.

Code:

- (id)init {
    if(self = [super init]) {
        //your initialization code goes here
    }

    return self;
}