[Pythonmac-SIG] FAQ item

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Tuesday, 29 July, 2003, at 22:14, Glenn Andreas wrote:
>
>
>> Something I want even more (and which is
>> even more work) is a dead simple dialog/window creation tool, similar 
>> to
>> what RealBasic (or, long ago, Hypercard) gives you. It should create 
>> perfectly
>> normal nib files, and perfectly normal PyObjC code, so that it gives 
>> an easy
>> learning curve from beginner to advanced.
>
> The biggest problem I see right there is that there is no documented 
> way to create nib files except to use IB.
>
I've no idea if this is documented anywhere, but it is "common" 
knowlegde that nib files are archived Objective-C object graphs. The 
connections (outlets/actions) are the hard part, there are classes for 
these but no documentation on how to use the. Pretty printing a NIB 
should do wonders (and is left as an exercise for the reader).

Ronald