Re: [xmlvm-users] Usage questions

[Sascha H. <sa...@xm...>]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Panayotis Katsaloulis <
pan...@pa...> wrote:

>
>  - If the Java code that I write doesn't do any GUI and I want to do all
>> the UI using Interface Builder is this possible or will I have trouble
>> linking the XMLVM code with Interface Builder?
>>
>
> So the Interface Builder spits out Objective-C Code, I imagine? You would
> need to do some manual work to combine that code with the one XMLVM
> generates. So far we don't have very smooth support for combining manually
> writte application code with cross-compiled code.
>
>
>
> The interface builder produces an XML file which is loaded at runtime from
> iPhone - similar what the Android SDK does.
> Unfortunately right now XMLVM does not support this XML file, since it does
> not produce IBOutlet and IBAction tags, neither properties.
> You have to manually edit the source file yourself, but I don't know how
> easy this will be.
>
> It will be better to write the GUI stuff by hand in Java; it works and you
> have more control over it
>


Ah I see, thanks for the clarification. In this case, yes, you cannot use
that XML file with an XMLVM-generated project at the moment.