Re: Conditionally modifying NIBs?

FROM : Uli Kusterer
DATE : Sun May 18 11:14:55 2008

Am 14.05.2008 um 19:37 schrieb Mike Fischer:
> Given the recent/ongoing discussion about bypassing Interface 
> Builder I have one question/issue for which IB does not seem to 
> provide any solution. Interface Builder and NIBs are nice and have 
> many advantages but I am missing a way to build different versions 
> of nib files depending on Project targets/settings. I'm wondering 
> how others handle this?



I generally split up the NIB into several NIBs. That way, I can load 
the master NIB containing the window, and then load the sub-NIBs using 
NSViewController depending on which version of the app is built.

I also have some view classes not unlike Javas GridBag and similar 
that arrange their subviews and, when used as a window's content view, 
can resize the window to fit their contents. Comes in very handy for 
all sorts of dynamic view arrangements, including using bindings to 
show/hide non-applicable parts and having the window magically re-
layout in response to that. Though in that case I often just embed the 
views in an NSView that have to be shown/hidden together, without 
loading them from separate NIBs.

Cheers,
-- Uli Kusterer
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