XCode 2.3 is out, so why not spend a nice May evening reading some Dev Tools release notes?
There are some excited posts about Dedicated Network Builds from people who work at Apple, but not having a cluster of build machines myself, I’m not so worked up. (Unless sourceforge gets on that for their build farm.)
Then I saw this one line buried a little past halfway through:
- Nibtool
- Added functionality for exporting and importing properties as a plist Nibtool can extract properties into a plist format that can be edited and then reimported into the nib using the new –export (-e) and –import (-i) flags.
If I read this right, it means the door is open for easy automated access to bindings and maybe a way to make editing bindings easier. I know visual programming has its benefits, but bindings are just so opaque – you see one object’s binding at a time, and making mass changes to bindings is just impossible – until now, I hope.
I’m downloading it now.
Daniel Jalkut 11:19 pm on May 28, 2006 Permalink
Mike: I don’t know if you’ve gotten a chance to investigate this, but I was inspired by your post to do some experimentation. I’ve written up my results on my blog:
http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/137/pain-in-the-nib
Thanks for pointing out this new feature!
Red Sweater Blog - Pain in the Nib 3:54 pm on May 30, 2006 Permalink
[...] The fact that this is listed as a bug has always given me hope that it would one day be fixed. Unfortunately, it appears to be getting fixed at the same pace as all the other bugs and quirks of IB. But when Michael McCracken posted this entry describing a happy discovery in the latest Xcode release notes, I shared his cautious optimism. Nibtool has been updated, and it includes a new pair of options for “importing” and “exporting” object properties from and to an existing nib file: [...]