Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Wild idea #17: Extra functionality for NibClassBuilder

[Jack J. <Jac...@cw...>]

On Tuesday, Jun 10, 2003, at 19:50 Europe/Amsterdam, Just van Rossum 
wrote:

> Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>
>>> It would be nice if nibclassbuilder would have an option to print
>>> an overview of classes/objects/connections, but I doubt it will be
>>> better than what IB already offers.
>>
>> Such a beast might be usefull for examples posted on the web.
>
> Hm, I just discovered nibtool, a command line app able to print various
> overviews of nib files. The output isn't particularly pretty, though.
> Try
>   $ nibtool -a <mynib>.nib

This is the sort of info I wanted! But:
1. It isn't very readable, although that could be fixed fairly easily; 
and
2. There's too much!

If we could somehow deduce the bits that the user is probably 
interested in and only present that (at least, by default) that would 
help a lot. In the iClass example the author has created one class, one 
window with a handful of controls and a small number of connections. 
(Or is there a new menu entry too? I don't think so, but I'm not sure). 
If we could show just that bit of the dump you'd end up with around 50 
lines of information that show you all the stuff you need to know.
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