Re: Newbie questions: init, new, standard dialogs
Re: Newbie questions: init, new, standard dialogs
- Subject: Re: Newbie questions: init, new, standard dialogs
- From: Brendan Younger <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 00:04:58 -0500
On Wednesday, December 5, 2001, at 11:28 PM, Erik M. Buck wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Ronge" <email@hidden>
5. Once a nib is compiled is it changed in someway so that someone with
Interface Builder can't open it up?
No. You can open any nib on your system with Interface Builder. Open
Mail.app's nibs and change them all you want...
Not entirely true. If you have the latest software (10.1.1), I defy you
to open Mail.app's nib files without first adding a classes.nib and/or
an info.nib to them. To answer Matt's question, there is nothing really
special about the nib once it's inside your application, it's only just
copied into the Resources/English.lproj (for English nibs of course)
directory. If you want, you can remove info.nib and classes.nib from
your nib files to make them unopenable in IB. (The nib files themselves
contain three secondary nib files; classes.nib, objects.nib, and
info.nib. Play around with the "Show package contents" Finder
contextual menu to see what I mean.) Motivated people, however, can
still find ways of opening them in IB, but at least it takes a little
doing.
Brendan Younger