Re: [Pyobjc-dev] New NibLoader.py

[Peter M. <zig...@po...>]

On Sunday, November 17, 2002, at 01:56 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

> NibLoader is an enhanced version of the module objc.classnib. Neither 
> the original module nor the new version have a lot of documentation, 
> other than the code.
>
> The idea behind it all is simple: If you define a class in Interface 
> Builder (IB) it stores information about that class in a text file 
> inside the NIB. The module objc.classnib can be used to parse this 
> file and create stub python classes. This saves some typing and 
> removes a source of errors. I find this very convenient.

Ah, so it's sort of like "Create files" in IB?


> What Just did is rewrite this in such way that the text file is parsed 
> at runtime, removing another source of errors (forgetting to 
> regenerate the stub file after updating/adding class definitions in 
> Interface Builder) and of course showing of the flexibility of Python.

Cool... I'll have to have a closer look at it. I've been writing the 
classes manually.

Peter