Re: Programmatic Windows
Re: Programmatic Windows
- Subject: Re: Programmatic Windows
- From: "William Moss" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 19:42:20 -0400
I really like Interface Builder. Since the release that was bundled in the
Mac OS X box, it's grown leaps and bounds to make it a wonderful and usable
tool for fashioning interface elements. I'd never be able to get the Aqua
guideline distantces right without those "snap-to" guides.
On the other hand, the main drawback I have with it is like any other GUI
toolkit. It's very hard to document, debug, and integrate changes with
other programmers and versions of a project. This was a problem with
Hypercard. This was a problem with FileMaker. This was a problem with
FaceSpan.
While programmatic interfaces would be nice, what I'd really love is to
have Interface Builder be able to export and import the NIB file into an
XML format. A human readable, computer-langauge independent, text file that
lets me catch the brain dead mistakes that I might not see by looking with
the inspector or with outlets or whatever.
Have I overlooked something? I know that there's a way to get IB to
generate stub code to instantiate the NIB files, but is there anything like
an XML import or export facility?
Thanks,
William
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