[Pyobjc-dev] Re: interface builder queries

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

Ronald Oussoren <ous...@ci...> writes:

> On dinsdag, 26 augustus 2003, at 23:04PM, b.bum wrote:
>
>> 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)
> Python should also work, as long as IB is single threaded, see the
> EnvironmentPrefs example for a python based plugin. That's a plugin
> for System Preferences, but the mechanics should be simular for IB
> pallettes.

Right, I'll see if I can blend an IBPalette example with the PyObjC
screensaver example.  I'll try to package it up for the Examples/
directory if I come up with anything useful.

> The hard part is the complete lack of documentation for writing IB
> pallettes ;-)

Yeah, I'd kind of noticed that.  Time to learn to read Objective C
examples, I guess.

I can already tell that debugging these suckers is going to be "fun".

Cheers,
mwh

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