viewWillAppear and related methods not invoked when running from an archive

[defagos]

viewWillAppear and related methods not invoked when running from an archive

[tiago-g-henriques]

By the way, I'm using the penultimate version of CoconutKit from the develop branch (commit 89da969).

[defagos]

I could reproduce the problem you describe (iOS 5.1.1), I will try to find some time to investigate it.

[defagos]

I finally found some time to investigate your issue.

I first tried to use CoconutKit binaries and it worked (see https://github.com/defagos/SegmentContainer). As always, that's why I strongly recommend using CoconutKit binaries. When a project is compiled from source the result might change with newer Xcode versions in unpredictable ways (in particular when project default settings are changed), and I sadly cannot afford spending too much time investigating such issues.

But your problem was interesting, and after playing around I found that setting Dead Code Stripping to NO for the SegmentContainer project fixes your issue. This seems to make sense, but I cannot tell you what exactly gets lost if dead code stripping is enabled (even after having a look at the binary).

Two more remarks regarding your code:

• You should not access the view outlet in a view controller initializer since this will prematurely trigger view creation. In -[LifeCycleTestViewController initWithColor:], you should store the color you receive and assign it in the viewDidLoad method
• You do not have to load xibs for iPhone / iPad manually. Append ~iphone or ~ipad to your xibs instead

I made those changes in the fork I made from your project, have a look if you are interested.

Regards.

[tiago-g-henriques]

Thanks for taking the time to look into this issue (and thanks for the bonus tips). I disabled dead code stripping in my project and that seems to have solved the problem with the package.