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Re: Loading a .nib?
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Re: Loading a .nib?


  • Subject: Re: Loading a .nib?
  • From: Chris Hanson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 12:39:15 -0700

On May 2, 2008, at 5:37 PM, Graham Cox wrote:

is a Carbon app, so there is no Cocoa runtime available. You can use a nib, but it has to be a Carbon one, so the functions you need to look at are in the HIView family of Carbon functions.

It doesn't matter what Carbon app you're writing a plug-in for, you can use Cocoa.


You just need to ensure NSApplicationLoad() is called. You can call it yourself in your plug-in before you try to use Cocoa:

<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Miscellaneous/AppKit_Functions/Reference/reference.html#//apple_ref/c/func/NSApplicationLoad >

The Objective-C runtime, the Cocoa frameworks, etc. will be pulled in as a side-effect of loading a plug-in that's linked against them. They aren't required to be linked from the main executable.

The only tricky thing you'll need to manage is if the main executable *unloads* plug-ins. You have to ensure your plug-in is unloadable in that case, which can be subtle with Cocoa code. For example, you'll want to pass -fno-constant-cfstrings to the compiler, and use CFSTR("foo") instead of @"foo" for string constants, to ensure that they're created at runtime rather than memory-mapped from your plug-in.

  -- Chris

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 >Loading a .nib? (From: "J. Todd Slack" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Loading a .nib? (From: Graham Cox <email@hidden>)

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