Re: [Pyobjc-dev] interface builder queries

[Just v. R. <ju...@le...>]

Ronald Oussoren wrote:

> IIRC NibClassBuilder will automaticly merge the class definitions in
> the NIB files (as long as they all have the same super class).

You Recall Correctly.

> > 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).

It would depend on the amount of monkeying around you plan to do, but
maybe it's an option to create those bits of the interface in code.

It's not pretty, but not _that_ hard either.

Just