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massive problems with new nibtool
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  • Subject: massive problems with new nibtool
  • From: Manfred Lippert <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 10:52:10 +0200

Hi,

anyone else having problems with nibtool from August 2002 Dev Tools Update?

1.) First bug: sometimes it creates defective NIB files. See below. I can "work around" this bug by using the Option -O (--use-oids) when translating NIB files (see below, also).

2.) Second bug: It DOES NOT preserve layout information! :-( So nibtool is now completely useless for me. I don't know how to continue developing my project. I can not layout all NIBs of all languages, each time I make a minor change to one of my NIB files. (I have a skript that calls nibtool and automatically updates all NIBs in all languages each time I make a change in some NIB of the "developing" language.)

Does anyone have an idea what I can do?

Here is an example how to reproduce the first bug:

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- download http://www.mani.de/english.nib.sit
- unpack it
- make a copy of english.nib and name it backup.nib
- cd to the right directory in the Terminal and type:
- nibtool -I backup.nib -L english.nib > strings
- nibtool -I backup.nib -d strings -w german.nib english.nib
- open german.nib in Interface Builder

Interface Builder gives a warning "4 inconsistencies in the document were found and repaired. Please save the document".

You see that nibtool obviously created a defect german.nib file. If I try to use this file in my application, it crashes. If I repair it with Interface Builder, it works fine.
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To reproduce the second bug, you have to make some layout changes in the backup.nib and then try the following lines:
- nibtool -I backup.nib -O -L english.nib > strings
- nibtool -I backup.nib -O -d strings -w german.nib english.nib

The first bug is gone (because of the -O option) but layout information is completely ignored. :-(

Any ideas?
Please help! I want to continue my work ...

Regards,
Mani
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