updating an pre 10.2 nib file + credits in droplet

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#1

Hi…

Now that it’s time to build universal binaries I’m also updating some very old AS Studio apps, including ones built in project builder under 10.2.

I have 2 problems at the moment:

  1. I can’t “fully” update the 10.2 nib to a current nib. I created a new project and copied over the old nib files to it, and reconnected everything. Then in interface builder I used “save as” to make sure that they were saved as 10.2 and later, and on the “nib” tab on the main interface builder window I set it to nib file format 10.2 and later and oldest target 10.3.

The problem is that even though I did all that, much of the interface behaves as it did before. I have a table on a Draw Content View (I don’t even remember what the heck that was!) on a drawer. In attributes, vertical and horizontal scrollers are set to on, and automatically show and hide scrollers are on, and alternate row background is on. But none of those settings work : once built, the app has no scrollers at all and no alternating rows.

Furthermore, I can’t get rid of the old-style brushed interface in favor of a tiger-looking interface. If i turn off textures and turn on unified look, I get the old jaguar interface style.

  1. This may be unrelated, but how do I get a credits.rtf file to appear in the about box of an application created as a droplet? I know I did this before, but cannot remember how.

Thanks

#2

The “Has texture” checkbox will give your window a brushed metal appearance (it also disables the “unified title/toolbar look”). The “unified title/toolbar look” would only affect applications that use a toolbar.

Just ensure that the credits.rtf format ends up in the Resources folder of the built application.

#3

Bruce,

Thanks for the reply, but:

1a. So there’s no way to get the “plastic” flat metal texture?

1b. That doesn’t answer why the table doesn’t have the scroll bars as it is supposed to in OS X 10.3+

  1. No, putting credits.rtf in the resource folder does not help if the application was originally created as a droplet. I’m looking for the way to adjust that, hopefully without having to recreate the whole project. If i do have to recreate the project, then how do you make a regular application a droplet other than putting an on open handler in the code?

  2. also, another problem: I have a drop box configured to receive drops. It works but it is REALLY slow. It seems it is slow on the Finder end. The Finder takes forever to complete the drop and you can see the ghost of the folder dropped into the box spring back to the Finder. Anyone else experience this?

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#4

Like iTunes? Not that I’m aware of.

I wasn’t trying to answer that. :slight_smile: Unfortunately, I’m not sure what to say about your other problems.