Re: Need an alternative to Interface Builder for a good reason
Re: Need an alternative to Interface Builder for a good reason
- Subject: Re: Need an alternative to Interface Builder for a good reason
- From: Chris Hanson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 12:56:07 -0700
On Aug 12, 2007, at 12:46 PM, John Stiles wrote:
If you're going to use XML, why not try to figure out IB's XML and
then write code to just interpret the XML that comes out of IB?
Honestly if I were going to develop a cross-platform app, that would
be one of the first things I tried.
The "XML nibs" generated by Interface Builder 2.5 are just an "XML
plist" representation of a keyed archive. They are not in (or
intended to be in) any human-readable, human-authorable format, and
are extremely closely tied to the in-memory representation of the
objects in the nib just as binary nibs are.
You will honestly have a much easier time defining and implementing
your own format than trying to figure out and remain compatible with
IB's.
-- Chris
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