UI.View.init

(part of UI.View)

Returns: void

Parameters: [ noNotify (boolean) ]

Initializes the view, and creates the associated DOM element. The DOM element is created using the object's class, hence why it is not created during the constructor (when it would always see 'UIView' first), but in the init phase instead.

For example, an instance of a class named UILabel will have a corresponding DOM element of <uilabel/>.

When a view has finished initialization, the notification viewDidInit is sent.

noNotify is used when calling the super method in order to prevent multiple notifications of viewDidInit. It should never be passed outside of a subclassed init method.

Usage

var aView = new UI.View();
aView.init();

// but in a subclass:
self.overrideSuper ( self.class, "init", self.init );
self.init = function ( noNotify )
{
    self.super ( "classname", "init", true );
    ...
    if (!noNotify)
    {
        self.notify ('viewDidInit');
    }
}

Version

0.3 Introduced; Docs Valid.