Editing Nib-files in Classic

[Tobi]

Hi folks,

Had to go back to good old MPW because it can make true Carbon applications that run on both Classic and X, not like that pseudo-carbon apps that ProjectBuilder makes. So I am in OS 9 most of the time now. But my app uses a nib-file for the interface. It sucks to reboot into X just to edit the interface using InterfaceBuilder or run MPW in the Classic Environment. So I'm looking for a simple way to edit those cool nib-files in OS 9. Haven't found anything so far. Does anyone know a classic or carbon tool that can edit nib-files??

Thanks

-Tobi

[OneSadCookie]

AFAIK, there is not such a tool, nor is there likely ever to be one -- the nib format isn't officially documented to the best of my knowledge, and IB is a pretty nice program, so nobody's likely to want to try & replace it.

Why don't you just build using PB/IB in X most of the time and build & test the classic version less frequently, rather than (presumably) the opposite bias?

[Tobi]

Originally posted by OneSadCookie
Why don't you just build using PB/IB in X most of the time and build & test the classic version less frequently, rather than (presumably) the opposite bias?

Simply because X is way too slow on my machine. I have a quite huge source code file and if I modify it using PB, there are always long loading delays while I'm typing which prevent me from getting any work done and it takes long to compile also. So I've decided to use good old MPW which is fast in handling those big files and it compiles slightly faster. Too bad there is no such tool :( And too bad Apple doesn't carbonize the MPW. They simply don't want any more backward compatibility as it seams, so they don't go on with MPW and make ProjectBuilder which compiles Carbon code that is OS X only.
Perhaps I'll go and use PB/IB more if Jaguar brings a good speed-boost.

Thanks anyway,

-Tobi