Hi all,
I’d like to understand how this function from NSWindowController.h: - (instancetype)initWithWindowNibPath:(NSString *)windowNibPath owner:(id)owner; is supposed to work. We have an application that supports a plugin architecture and these plugins can launch dialogs as part of our app’s plugin API. We are just starting down the road of using “Base Internationalization”. We decided to start on the plugin side thinking this would be a smaller task to iron out all the details, and unfortunately we have run into some problems (well, fortunately that we found them earlier rather than later maybe). In our test plugin, we have a dialog 20129.xib that has a base localization and a German localization for testing purposes, but just the 20129.strings file as we are trying to use Auto-Layout and only have the .strings to be localized as opposed to the entire .xib file. We have not been able to get the correct strings showing up. Fast forwarding to some of the important things we have discovered, the initWithWindowNibPath seems to work fine (as well as the similar initWithWindowNibName) when we localize a .xib file on the application side. However, when we do this on the plugin side, initWithWindowNibPath fails to get the localizable .strings file correctly. Further, that API seems to want to grab such a 20129.strings file from the main app’s resources. If I add the 20129.strings file to the app’s /Contents/Resources/de.lproj/ folder, the plugin dialog has the correct localized German strings. I should note that I am simply testing this by going into the scheme settings and under the Options section, setting Application Language to German and Application Region to Germany. Is this just a bug in initWithWindowNibPath or is there something else we are missing here? According to this comment in NSWindowController.h: /* Instances initialized with the "Name" methods will eventually locate their nib file in the file's owner's class' bundle or in the app's +mainBundle using standard NSBundle API. Use the "Path" method if your nib file is at a fixed location (which is not inside one of those bundles). */ We had to go the “Path” route (as opposed to the “Name” methods) as the resources are in the plugin, not the main app, and the file’s owner’s class is also in the main app, not the plugin. Any suggestions on how to get this all working? Thanks! Chris ----------------------------- Chris Cianflone www.makemusic.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
