Re: load a NIB from NSData
Re: load a NIB from NSData
- Subject: Re: load a NIB from NSData
- From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 20:11:41 +0200
On Wednesday, June 12, 2002, at 07:32 , Timothy Ritchey wrote:
NIB file that has been loaded into an NSData object...
How? NIB is actually a folder, containing (normally) three different
files!
That is a bloody good question. This little ditty:
NSBundle *mBundle = [NSBundle mainBundle];
NSString *path = [mBundle pathForResource:@"test" ofType:@"nib"];
data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:path];
wasn't throwing an error
Quite properly, at that. As docs say, all those foobarWithContentsOfFile:
methods merrily return nil if they can't fulfill the request; they don't
throw (nor raise, which would be a more proper term in ObjC/Foundation).
Thus...
, but after reading your e-mail, when I added this line:
NSLog([NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@: %d", path, [data length]]);
I was greeted with a zero data length.
...I'd bet you actually got nil in data (which among others ensures that
[data whatever] returns zero).
I never checked it, because I was still trying to figure out how to load
it on the other end. I forgot that a nib was in fact a folder. Perhaps I
am barking up the wrong tree entirely.
Depends on what you are actually trying to do. Just to move any folder to
another system I would probably use gnutar (launched via NSTask) on both
sides to pack/unpack (with the added benefit of comprimation), and then
indeed send it via NSData. There are other possibilities of course (like
using a HTTP request via NSURL, in case the "vendor" happens to have
Apache activated)...
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