[MacRuby-devel] My class's initialize not called

[steve ross]

I'm sure this is an elementary question, but I have the class below. In IB, I set several NSTextField controls to this class. Everything works in the blah, blah, blah part, but strangely enough the 

puts "initialize dctf"

never seems to be called. Any thoughts as to why?

require 'strings'

class DuplicateCounterTextField < NSTextField
  include Strings
  
  attr_accessor :splitter, :completions
  attr_accessor :wordCount, :duplicateCount
  
  def initialize
    puts "initialize dctf"
    @splitter = /\W+/
    @wordCount = 0
    @cachedWordCount = 0
    @duplicateCount = 0
  end
  
  # blah, blah, blah working code

  def textDidChange(notification)
    words = stringValue.split(@splitter)
    @wordCount = words.length
    @duplicateCount = @wordCount - words.uniq.length
    
    if delegate.respond_to?('controlCountDidChange:wordCount:duplicateCount:')
      delegate.controlCountDidChange(self, 
                                   wordCount:@wordCount, 
                              duplicateCount:@duplicateCount) 
    end
  end

  # etc.
end