Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Moving from XCode to py2app: xib trouble

[Orestis M. <or...@or...>]

Isn't it perhaps better to have py2app invoke ibtool (as proposed by  
Nicholas Riley), or do we not want to introduce a dependency to the  
Developer Tools ? (I'm not sure if that's the case already).
--
Orestis Markou
or...@or...
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On 19 Μαϊ 2008, at 7:13 ΠΜ, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

>
> On 18 May, 2008, at 18:46, Orestis Markou wrote:
>
>> So, I've created a project under Xcode, and I'm trying to make it  
>> work
>> using py2app.
>>
>> I've moved over all the Python files (including main.m and main.py)
>> and English.lproj, translated the plist to a python dict (this could
>> be easily automated), py2app happilly generates the bundle but the
>> application dies because it can't find the MainMenu nib file.
>>
>> After some investigation, I've learned that nib files are now  
>> actually
>> compiled from xib files, which doesn't happen when I use py2app.
>>
>> What step am I missing?
>
> Someone will have to teach py2app to compile .xib files. There's  
> already code that deals with datamodels for CoreData, enhancing that  
> to deal with .xib files should be fairly easy.  The complicating  
> factor is that datamodels are explicitly mentioned in the setup.py  
> file, while nib files are usually copied as resource files.
>
> I'll get around to that some time, although it is unlikely that that  
> will happen before WWDC.
>
> Ronald
>