[Pyobjc-dev] Re: Multiple Nibs

[Winston W. <cj...@ob...>]

Has anybody responded to this?  I'm having the same problem.

-winston

> I"m trying to set up a second NIB for a modal dialog to display 
> progress
>  while my application does some processing in my Mac OS X app.  We are 
> using
>  Python 2.3 with PyObjC 1.1b1.  However, the "magic" that loads the 
> classes
>  from the NIB file doesn"t seem to work for me. (That"s the problem 
> with
>  magic - it is somewhat obscure 8-) ).  My guess is that I"m missing 
> some
>  important step, but I can"t figure out what it is and I don"t see an 
> example
>  that covers this.
>
>  In my main application, when it is time to show the modal dialog, I 
> have:
>
>  from mymodalpanelclass import MyModalPanel
>
>      def showMyModalPanel(self):
>          myModal = MyModalPanel.alloc()
>          myModal.init()
>          myModal.showDialog(application)
>          while <more-work-to-do>:
>              <do-some-work>
>              myModal.runDialog()
>          myModal.closeDialog()
>
>  In a secondary NIB file called "MyModalPanel.nib" I created an NSPanel
>  window, set the class of "File"s Owner" to MyModalPanelController, 
> created
>  an outlet "myModalPanel" and connected it to the NSPanel window.
>
>  In the file that implements MyModalPanel, I have:
>
>  from PyObjCTools import NibClassBuilder
>  NibClassBuilder.extractClasses("MyModalPanel")
>
>  class MyModalPanelController(NibClassBuilder.AutoBaseClass):
>      # the actual base class is NSObject
>      # the following outlets are added to the class:
>      # myModalPanel
>
>      def showDialog(self, application):
>          self.application = application
>          self.myModalPanel.setWorksWhenModal(True)
>          self._modalSession =
>  self.application.beginModalSessionForWindow_(self.myModalPanel)
>
>      def closeDialog(self):
>          self.application.endModalSession_(self._modalSession)
>
>      def runDialog(self):
>          self.application.runModalSession_(self._modalSession)
>
>  However, when I run this code, I find that self.myModalPanel is None 
> and of
>  course, nothing works.  My impression was that the Panel would be 
> created
>  automatically when I created the MyModalPanelController instance.  
> What do I
>  need to do to get the NSPanel created?
>
>  Thanks!
>  - Bob