Re: editing xibs
Re: editing xibs
- Subject: Re: editing xibs
- From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 08:53:45 -0400
Many workarounds in the past few years were to view source and edit the XML of storyboards directly.
From some of the values of indices I've seen inside the XML of storyboards, I'd venture a guess that some are created within Xcode itself and if we don't know how or what creates the index values, or what they should be, it's likely that creating these completely from scratch might be a bad idea.
However, it does seem that having a few XIB or storyboard templates lying around in a folder that you can just copy into a project might be a small project worth testing out when you have the time.
On Mar 13, 2014, at 6:53 AM, email@hidden wrote:
> Recently I have been porting an app from WPF to Cocoa.
> This has entailed a lot of looking at XAML.
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> Visual Studio has a XAML editor but many programmers just edit the XAML directly.
> The XAML expresses all aspects of the UI, including bindings, and is a powerful means of defining a UI.
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> In Xcode we have IB and the .xib.
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> I use IB and think it is powerful, especially when it comes to configuring Auto Layout.
> However, part of me objects to having to dig through inspector panes to modify properties and bindings.
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> I can edit the XIB file of course but it hasn’t been designed for manual editing.
> Does anyone habitable construct .xib files manually?
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> What I would find appealing would be a more code orientated presentation/visualisation of the .xib content.
> Then I could quickly review and edit bindings textually rather than through the inspector, the way that a WPF programmer works with their XAML file.
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> I am not aware of any tool that that takes this approach.
> Is it out there?
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> Is a XAML like solution eve possible : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface_markup_language
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> or a domain specific language (perhaps that is all XAML is)
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> or an innovative tool that more widely encompasses both the textual and visual components of UI design on OS X.
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> Jonathan
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