Re: How to converting a Carbon nib to Cocoa?

FROM : Gary L. Wade
DATE : Thu Jul 03 20:17:25 2008

Apparently you haven't perused the XML used by Carbon NIBs.  There's lots of linkages across the format so that any particular object is not as completely self-contained as you believe.

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>On 3 jul 2008, at 14.54, Kyle Sluder wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Tommy Nordgren <tommy.<email_removed>
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>>> So it is a matter of writing and applying a suitable xsl stylesheet 
>>> file.

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>> The transformations required to obtain a meaningful Cocoa XIB from a
>> Carbon NIB are impossible to express in XSL.  Or any language for that
>> matter.  It requires human thought, because Carbon NIBs and Cocoa XIBs
>> do not express the same concept.  Even if you could transform a
>> particular Carbon NIB to a Cocoa XIB (certainly a challenge,
>> considering the spec is not documented and warned to be very fragile)
>> it would be a very bad idea to do so, particularly because they would
>> not be semantically equivalent.
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>> --Kyle Sluder

>    Not correct. Of course connections can't be created this way, but it 
>is certainly possible
>to replace carbon objects with the equivalent Cocoa objects.
>    Niltargeted actions for the standard menu items can also be set up 
>this way.
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