Re: Why initialize the menubar without Interface Builder

FROM : Uli Kusterer
DATE : Sun Nov 04 12:33:37 2007

Am 04.11.2007 um 02:18 schrieb Jon Hess:
> Interface Builder files have a long way to go with reguards to 
> integrating with industry standard SCM systems. That said, you can 
> get consistently good diff results with Filemerge. Filemerge runs 
> Interface Builder documents through ibtool to provide a 
> canonicalized human readable textual representation of a NIB before 
> presenting you with a diff.


  Well, I last tried this on Tiger, where nibtool is very selective as 
to what information it will display to you. There's a lot missing, 
like bindings. It did occasionally help to view NIBs, but it doesn't 
let you merge NIB files, because it's a lossy export.

  I've seen stuff in the Leopard release notes and docs that looks 
like this is about to improve, but just yesterday Xcode 3 did 
something with one of my NIBs that made one of my apps crash when 
launched on Tiger, and I had quite a time tracking down and restoring 
that. So, I'm reluctant to seriously go for Xcode 3 until I know stuff 
like that has been fixed.

Cheers,
-- M. Uli Kusterer
http://www.zathras.de