[Rubycocoa-talk] A word on app design and distribution

[Tim P. <he...@ti...>]

Evening All

I just wondered what peoples thoughts are on distributing parts of  
applications into different nibs?
I have been playing with NSView subclasses to read in various NIBs,  
which works without problem. However, I then started to wonder how you  
communicate between NIB files?

For instance, in my particular circumstance, I have a complex outline  
view (one nib), then I wanted to put another pretty complex tab view  
system into another so as not to clutter things up in the main nib.  
However, the tab views are driven by the selection in the outline  
view.... Obviously I do not want to instantiate another controller in  
either component NIB, so im guessing its achieved using outlets to  
access the other object? Or would it be a case that the links would  
appear "broken" in IB, but when read it at run time as they would all  
be owned by the same NIB then get access to its objects?

I appreciate this is more a design issue - it would be nice to hear  
peoples views/thoughts tho :)

Cheers

Tim