Your describing the experience of using IB with Carbon NIBs.  With  
Cocoa NIBs you can hook the GUI to your code directly inside IB.


Ross.

On 24/06/2008, at 2:49 AM, George Beckman wrote:

> OK as I understand it if I create an interface in IB and use Carbon,  
> that interface is useless if I need to compile in Coco.   That gives  
> me such a headache, I cannot even describe it.   Why Apple would put  
> out a product that it invented that is a dead end, I will never  
> know.   A result of practice no doubt.
>
> Bernie developed TWM.   TWM creates appearance windows (which I am  
> guessing are Carbon??) and creates a clever little outline of code  
> to grab onto the objects you have created.  I think Apple should  
> give Bernie the "You Outdid IB Single Handedly" award.  But, alas,  
> Bernie understands things better and even he downplays TWM.
>
> Back to Bernie and TWM.   Could TWM or does TWM create code that  
> could compile under coco?   And if not, could it or a tool like it  
> be made to create coco compliant code.   I, perhaps like Pete and  
> others here, struggle to understand what OOP and coco have to do  
> with us and our existing code.   And yet in the face of a clumsy  
> product like IB, Bernie created a little app that creates the GUI  
> and hook code linked to everything you created.
>
> Back to Bernie and TWM.   I think TWM is the greatest thing since  
> bubble gum.   Or at least since PG.
>
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>
> George
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