Re: xib plists

[Gregory John Casamento]

Hey David,

I have thought about what it might take to do this.  Essentially, this would mean a new set of encoders, similar to what is done with GModel and Keyed Archiving (although Keyed Archiving uses the same methods as regular encoding).

Currently there's so much to do in GNUstep that this is not something that I personally can take on at the moment, but it is something that I would be happy to advise others in doing (i.e. I could give guidance and pointers along the way based on my experiences).

Since Gorm's internal data structure is separate from it's file format now, it would be a matter of writing a plugin and a library which would contain the categories which would implement the new encoder.  My feeling is that this would be something like GSXibArchiver or something like that (just an example for a name...) and it would have methods like initWithXibEncoder:/encodeWithXibEncoder: etc.   It would need to have a category for every known class in GNUstep in order to work properly.

Anyway... those are my thoughts on the subject and about the extent of how much I've done on it.  You know now as much as I do about how we're going to do this, if it's done. :)

Later, GC

 

Gregory Casamento -- Principal Consultant - OLC, Inc
# GNUstep Chief Maintainer

----- Original Message ----
From: David Chisnall <address@hidden>
To: GNUstep Developer <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 1:12:48 PM
Subject: xib plists

Hi,

Since 10.5, OS X has used .xib files, which contain an XML format 
which is similar in content to a .nib file.  These are then 
transformed in to .nib files when the project is compiled.  The ibtool 
program which performs this conversion can also translate them into 
plist format, with class hierarchy, object properties, connections and 
classes all stored as dictionaries.  I wonder if anyone has looked at 
importing and exporting this format from GORM?

David


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