diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 1e865c96e..58370b5be 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2002-08-02  Pierre-Yves Rivaille <pyrivail@ens-lyon.fr>
+
+	* Source/NSTabView.m ([NSTabView -initWithCoder:]):
+	Set _selected ivar based on _selected_item value.
+
 2002-08-01  Adam Fedor  <fedor@gnu.org>
 
 	* configure.ac: Check for recent version of audiofile
diff --git a/Source/NSTabView.m b/Source/NSTabView.m
index 2387f2782..0af4fc9c1 100644
--- a/Source/NSTabView.m
+++ b/Source/NSTabView.m
@@ -725,6 +725,7 @@
   [aDecoder decodeValueOfObjCType: @encode(BOOL) at: &_truncated_label];
   _delegate = [aDecoder decodeObject];
   [aDecoder decodeValueOfObjCType: "i" at: &_selected_item];
+  _selected = [_items objectAtIndex: _selected_item];
 
   return self;
 }