Re: Conditionally modifying NIBs?

FROM : Mike Fischer
DATE : Thu May 15 13:26:22 2008

Am 15.05.2008 um 01:10 schrieb Hamish Allan:

> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Mike Fischer 
> <<email_removed>> wrote:
>

>> (I know this can be hacked, and that while verbose it's only xml. 
>> But I'd
>> want my apps building in the next Xcode (sub-)release as well.)

>
> Sure, well, you can't eat your cake and have it ;)


Too bad ;-)


> I'd have thought that you could maybe try to automate "Whenever any of
> the parts of nib N1 and N2 change that are identical in both nibs I
> have to remember to make the changes in both."


Well yes, it's possible. But I think one would have to be quite 
desperate to choose that path.


> You can also use ibtool for verification, so I don't buy that
> "extremely dangerous" stuff, and the bit about backwards compatibility
> is irrelevant.


Well, looking at one of these beasts I'm so sure. There is a lot of 
stuff in there that is not obvious and baring heavy experimentation 
I'd guess that many things need to fit together even if they are in 
totally separate places. I could probably change the dimensions of a 
view or the title of a window. But anything more complicated would be 
a very ambitious undertaking. And I'm not even talking about the 
IBDocument.RunnableNib block of data at the end of the XIB.


Thanks for your thoughts though.

Mike
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