Re: Difference between NIB and XIB
Re: Difference between NIB and XIB
- Subject: Re: Difference between NIB and XIB
- From: Paul Sargent <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:34:51 +0000
On 19 Nov 2007, at 16:55, Alastair Houghton wrote:
On 19 Nov 2007, at 16:38, Rick Langschultz wrote:
I know this may be a stupid question but I thought I would ask.
What is the difference between an XIB and a NIB. I am migrating my
project to Leopard and using the new Inteface Builder. Is XIB
preferred on Leopard rather than NIB? Should I just use NIB files
because of compatibility issue with Tiger?
I think you'll find that when you build your application, XIB files
get compiled into NIB files. At least, that's the impression I got
at WWDC this year. So I don't think Tiger compatibility is an issue
when choosing between the two formats.
Yep. You still ship NIBs automagically.
As I understand it, the reason behind XIBs is that revision control
systems like SVN were breaking NIBs (or possibly vice-versa) because
they put extra hidden files inside the NIB bundle to track file status.
I think Interface builder stripped these out for a while, and didn't
particularly like them being there the rest of the time.
XIBs, on the other hand, are just single XML representations. So no
problem. Not sure you necessarily want to do a 3-way merge on one
though.
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