IBOutlets Not Setting in NSViewController

Question

So I've got an NSViewController (MyVC) set up like so:

//MyVC.h
...
@property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet NSTextField *input;
...

//MyVC.m
...
@synthesize input;

- (id)init
{
    self = [super initWithNibName: @"MyVC" bundle: [NSBundle mainBundle]];
    NSLog(@"%@", input); //prints (null) always
    return self;
}

- (void)loadView
{
    [super loadView];
    NSLog(@"%@", input); //still (null)
}
...

//MyVC.xib

Custom View       [Referencing Outlet:    File's Owner.view]
    Text Field    [Referencing Outlet:    File's Owner.input]

Now, when I load this NSViewController (by way of MyVC *vc = [[MyVC alloc] init];) and load it into a window, I see the Text Field appropriately. However, as the above paste (and several BAD_ACCESSes) would suggest, vc.input is never properly pointing to the Text Field.

Notes:

• This project is running ARC.
• This is not a simplification or generalization. I've run this exact code to no avail.
• All IBOutlets are definitely set up appropriately.

Answer 1

The error was a combination of things.

One of my revisions was missing the IBOutlet tag, and none of them were retaining references to the ViewController at runtime.