Re: Gorm and nib format

[Gregory Casamento]

Yes, presuming classes used by the application are implemented in GNUstep 
itself, the Xib files are readable.

Gregory Casamento
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Open Logic Corporation, President/CEO
GNUstep Lead Developer


On Jun 3, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Chan Maxthon <address@hidden> wrote:

> That is, if I have an existing OS X app for 10.8 (I #ifndef GNUSTEP out'ed 
> all Apple-specific code) I can port and build it as-is, with all xib files in 
> place?
> 
> 发自我的 iPad
> 
> 在 2013-6-4，3:30，Gregory Casamento <address@hidden> 写道：
> 
>> Gorm doesn't understand nibs beyond 10.5's nib format.  Beyond this nibs 
>> are, primarily, compiled resources.   They don't contain the necessary 
>> information to reconstruct and edit them in Gorm.   
>> 
>> The designable.nib file is basically a XIB in the first place.   So 
>> completing the xib support in Gorm will be best in any case to make this 
>> work.
>> 
>> It's worth mentioning that XIB support works in GNUstep itself.
>> 
>> Gregory Casamento
>> address@hidden
>> Open Logic Corporation, President/CEO
>> GNUstep Lead Developer
>> 
>> 
>> On Jun 3, 2013, at 2:36 PM, address@hidden wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I wanted to test Gorm and I have converted a very simple xib file into a 
>>> nib format (In Xcode 4.6, File->Export->Nib) and
>>> then I tried to load it inside Gorm but it didn't work.
>>> The converted xib file is a nib folder with 2 files inside : designable.nib 
>>> (that is actually a copy of the xib file ie a xml file) and
>>> keyedobjects.nib a binary plist file.When I look at Gorm's source code I 
>>> can see it expects to find 2 files : keyedobjects.nib and classes.nib.
>>> If Xcode can open this converted nib file I am sure Gorm would be able to 
>>> do it and it shouldn't be difficult to build this classes.nib
>>> manually. Is it something that could be done ?
>>> 
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