Re: Nib Dependency Madness
Re: Nib Dependency Madness
- Subject: Re: Nib Dependency Madness
- From: Waldo Lee Sharvey <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 14:38:25 -0400
On 5/27/09, Waldo Lee Sharvey <email@hidden> wrote:
> Tried that earlier today. The nib doesn't open in IB 2.5.6 either, and
> gives the same basic decode error.
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> On 5/27/09, Andrew Merenbach <email@hidden> wrote:
> > On May 27, 2009, at 10:04 AM, Waldo Lee Sharvey wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I have an pre-ib 3.0 nib that makes use of a control in a
> > > custom-written palette that a previous programmer seems to have lost.
> > > Whenever I try to open the nib in Interface Builder 3.0, I get a
> > > dialog with the message "Unable to resolve plug-in dependency for
> > > mynibfile.nib". The warning dialog does give me the option of
> > > "Continue" which I'd think would let me continue to open the nib sans
> > > the control, but this only leads to another dialog stating "The
> > > document mynibfile.nib" could not be opened. An instance of
> > > mypalettecontrol could not be decoded". And IB stops dead in its
> > > tracks.
> > >
> > > My goal is to salvage/reuse what's left of the nib file keeping
> > > everything intact, with the exception of the problematic palette
> > > control, which I don't really care about anyways. Is this possible, or
> > > is the entire nib file basically fried by virtue of this dependency
> > > and not being able to decode a palette that no longer exists?
> > >
> >
> > You won't be able to open the old file in Interface Builder 3. Try
> > installing Xcode 2.5, then opening it in Interface Builder 2, then creating
> > a new nib and copying over the interface from the old one, then save the new
> > nib and start using it in IB 3 (how's that for a run-on sentence?).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andrew
> >
>
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