> Your application's menu isn't that big of a deal, but your application's > integration with Mac OS X is a very big deal and that is most of the battle > of doing "nib less" development. It is much more than just populating the > main menu. Specifically, the application wrapper -- the .app -- typically > contains all kinds of metadata that is used by Mac OS X to integrate the > application into the system, both from the Finder's perspective and when the > application is run.
Well that I understand. And I've made pains in my framework library to account for that, and in fact have borrowed many ideas from Apple and used them on Win32. In fact the resource loading works in much the same way as resource bundles do on OS X, as well as the presence of info.plist resource files. > > How do you bootstrap the framework? I.e. what executable is run that uses > the resources from the framework? That is the most likely place to stick > the MainMenu.nib and let Cocoa bootstrap the normal way. Well you'd create your standard C++ app in Xcode (with standard app settings, i.e. you're creating a full blown .app bundle, not a unix command line utility), and then link to my libraries as Frameworks (i'd like to offer the possibility to link statically, but I'm 100% sure about how to do that). Given that I've created my libraries as Frameworks, can I have a .nib as part of one of the Framework bundles? My framework is laid out like so: FoundationKit.framework GraphicsKit.framework (depends on FoundationKit.framework) ApplicationKit.framework (depends on GraphicsKit.framework) If you're writing a GUI app, then you'd link to ApplicationKit.framework (and GraphicsKit.framework + FoundationKit.framework). Can I have a MainMenu.nib file in the ApplicationKit.framework? That way it's all built in and the developer doesn't have to worry about creating it. Cheers Jim _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
