Re: Nib Corruption ("Inconsistencies"): Can This Nib Be Saved?

FROM : Vince DeMarco
DATE : Mon Jan 27 01:52:00 2003

On Sunday, January 26, 2003, at 01:40  PM, Buzz Andersen wrote:

> I appear to have finally encountered the dreaded Nib file corruption
> I've heard so much about.  Whenever I open my application's
> MainMenu.nib, I now get a message telling me that their are
> "inconsistencies" in the file and that I should re-save it.
>
> I'm not sure quite how I precipitated this problem, but I do know it
> has something to do with an NSTableView that is stored in the nib. 
> Normally this NSTableView has the autosave name "songTable," and as
> long as it stored with that name, I get the error every time I open
> the nib in IB.  If I remove the autosave name, there is no problem.  I
> have even tried deleting the pre-existing NSTableView and creating a
> new one, but as soon as I put the autosave name back in, I have the
> problem again.  I've also tried, just for the sake of experimentation,
> saving the nib using the pre-10.2 format and then re-saving it using
> the 10.2 format I normally use.  No dice :-(.
>
> Does anyone know any way that I can fix this problem without having to
> re-create my app's entire interface?  Is there any way I can just get
> it to "forget" about songTable, and then re-create it?  Any help would
> be hugely appreciated :-)!
>


THere is a bug in NSTableView, that it removes all of the columns when
the autosavename is set. For now the solution is to not use the
autosave name in NSTableView's

please file a bug..

vince
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