Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Re: interface builder queries

[b.bum <bb...@ma...>]

On Aug 26, 2003, at 10:19 AM, Michael Hudson wrote:
> I had stumbled towards the fact that I might want to do that, but I
> have *no* idea where to even start... I don't suppse anyone has an
> example knocking around?  Even one in ObjC would be helpful, I guess.

- have a look at the example palette(s) provided in /Developer/Examples/

- create an Interface Builder palette project (punt on the whole PyObjC 
thing for the moment -- straight ObjC will be more straightforward for 
now)

You can listen for the following notifications if you want to know 
about Documents being opened/saved/closed:

IB_EXTERN NSString * const IBDidOpenDocumentNotification;
IB_EXTERN NSString * const IBWillSaveDocumentNotification;
IB_EXTERN NSString * const IBDidSaveDocumentNotification;
IB_EXTERN NSString * const IBWillCloseDocumentNotification;

The IBDocuments protocol contains most of what you need for attaching 
and detaching objects.  I would suggest that you use nibtool to dump a 
summary of the nib file at command line...

nibtool -a MyTest.nib

.... then exercise the APIs found in the InterfaceBuilder framework to 
see how the programatically interrogated object graph matches the 
summary from nibtool.

b.bum