Re: cross development on Jaguar

FROM : m
DATE : Thu Dec 02 21:45:57 2004

On Dec 2, 2004, at 12:17 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote:

> On Dec 2, 2004, at 1:03 PM, Dennis Falling wrote:
>

>> Is there any way to design an application to use two different nibs 
>> based on the version?

>
> Yes, if the nib is not the main nib file. You could do something like 
> this, for example:


[snip]

I tried this technique once and it wasn't worth the hassle of keeping 
the two nibs in synch as the design progressed or changed.

Conditionally using 10.3 features is the way to go.

Start here: 
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/
cross_development/CrossDevelopment.html>

I should also mention that if you rely on a class that exists on 10.3 
but not 10.2 (as opposed to simply methods that are missing on 10.2), 
things get a bit more complicated. You have to ensure that your nib 
doesn't try to instantiate any classes that aren't present on 10.2. You 
can dynamically swap in the class you really want after loading the 
nib, depending on whether you'r in 10.2. or 10.3.

_murat