[Pyobjc-dev] interface builder queries

[Michael H. <mw...@py...>]

[this can hardly be the best place to ask this question...]

My learn-PyObjC project -- a resource editor for EV Nova -- is going
quite nicely, but I have a question or two:

1) I'm going to have a lot (20? 30?) of NIBs and each one will likely
   have it's own controller class (this seems to be the standard
   approach) and it would be convenient to have most of these inherit
   from a custom class.  I don't see how to teach IB about this one
   custom class that is shared between all the NIB files in the
   project.  I suppose I could just add the functionality I want to
   NSWindowController...

2) How hard is it to generate/manipulate NIBs programmatically?
   They're mostly NSArchivered lumps of data, right?  The point behind
   this question is that I have a description of various data formats
   and it might save time to generate a really clunky interface from
   this description, and then turn it into a less clunky interface by
   monkeying about in IB (but not have to sort *all* those connections
   out by hand).

In general, the more I play with PyObjC, the more impressed I get.
Nice work!

Cheers,
mwh

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