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Re: YANP (Yet Another Nib Problem)
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Re: YANP (Yet Another Nib Problem)


  • Subject: Re: YANP (Yet Another Nib Problem)
  • From: T Reaves <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:17:41 -0500

	I'm sorry, perhaps I didn't make myself clear in the original email
below; I can open it fine, it just opens read-only.




On Feb 16, 2004, at 12:41 AM, Michael B. Johnson wrote:

> nibs are just a directory containing some number of files.  Back in
> the day, the number would be m + n, where n would be the number of
> images in your nib, but these days n is usually 0.  In practice, m is
> usually 3, classes.nib, info.nib, and objects.nib.
>
> These days, I believe the only one your app actually needs to run is
> the object.nib.  So if you removed the other two, your app would run,
> but no one would be able to open that nib up in IB.  I believe IB
> wants to see at least a classes.nib file in there (which could be
> minimal - take a look at one) as well as objects.nib.
>
> Remember that essentially all a nib file is a serialized version of
> the objects in it.  That's as complicated as you want to make it.
>
> You should also take a look at nibtool - you may be able to salvage
> your nib.  Do a man nibtool for info.
>
> Good luck - few things more annoying in Cocoa (and back in NeXTSTEP)
> than a nib file you can't open, especially if you made it...
>
>
> On Feb 15, 2004, at 12:52 PM, T Reaves wrote:
>
>> 	It seems that my nib has decided it's done.  It doesn't want to be
>> worked on any longer.
>>
>> 	When I open the nib, I get a dialog telling me it is read only.  The
>> file permissions disagree with that statement, but what do they know.
>> I used the save as, and when I opened the new file, it decided to play
>> hard-to-edit as well.
>>
>> 	Can anyone help?
>>
>> 	Thanks!
>>
>> [demime 0.98b removed an attachment of type
>> application/pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s]
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