Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Re: Multiple Nibs

[b.bum <bb...@ma...>]

On May 7, 2004, at 11:30 PM, Winston Wolff wrote:
> Ah yes, your description definitely helps.  Also this line here fixes 
> my problem, thank you so much:
>
>> Neither, it is unfrozen by NSBundle.loadNibNamed_owner_
>
> But that raises another question.  The above line works to unfreeze 
> your second NIB file, but in all the example code, where is the first 
> NIB file unfrozen, i.e. MainMenu.nib?  Is it hidden somewhere in
> 	AppHelper.runEventLoop(argv=[])

It is a part of standard Cocoa.  Open up any random Cocoa App's wrapper 
and have a look at the Info.plist.  You will find an entry with a 
key/value pair like...

         <key>NSMainNibFile</key>
         <string>Edit</string>

... that, in this case, means that NSApplication will automatically 
load Edit.nib as a part of startup (the above came from 
TextEdit.app/Contents/Info.plist.

Document based apps do something similar, but there is a method that 
you can override on your NSDocument subclass to return the NIB name (or 
you can override -makeWindowControllers and set everything up by hand, 
if that floats your boat).

b.bum