Re: Conditionally modifying NIBs?

FROM : Hamish Allan
DATE : Thu May 15 00:07:33 2008

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Mike Fischer <<email_removed>> wrote:

> I remember in the very dim past (when MacApp was still a modern framework
> ;-) that I had text based resource files (.r) to build the 'View' resources
> (rough analog to nibs) which included preprocessor macros to control which
> parts/features where active. These would be compiled into .rsrc files using
> the current build settings. This mechanism was very flexible when it came to
> building different variants of an application. (I admit though that the
> source was hard to read and edit due to all of the conditional stuff.)
>
> Is there any way to achieve someting similar in our modern Cocoa/Xcode/IB
> world? How do others handle this problem?


You could use XIB files instead of NIB files, and write a script to
process them as a build step before they are compiled...

Hamish