Re: Why initialize the menubar without Interface Builder

FROM : Jon Hess
DATE : Mon Nov 05 20:15:23 2007

Hey Uli -
On Nov 4, 2007, at 3:33 AM, Uli Kusterer wrote:

> 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.


That's true, you can't use it for merging, only diffing. You can see 
basic bindings information by passing "--connections" to either ibtool 
on Leopard, or nibtool on Tiger. Filemerge does this for you.

Jon Hess