On May 4, 2010, at 7:34 AM, Bill Appleton wrote:
there doesn't seem any way to do it except reading NSimage files out
of the
bundle... is that right?
Right. Cursors in Cocoa are NSImages, and these are generally read out
of individual image files in the bundle, probably .png.
does anyone know of a good way to go from the resource cursor to the
image
file?
i am converting many rsrc dialogs from carbon to cocoa (DITL, DLOG)
is there any automatic tool for converting a dialog to interface
builder?
I would ask on carbon-dev, since many Carbon developers probably dealt
with this a while ago when switching over to Carbon nibs. I don't know
if Apple has any tool; if the 3rd party app Resorceror still exists it
might have a way to convert resources to images and nibs.
You are still going to have to do manual work on every dialog, even
after nib conversion, to adjust the layout to Aqua human interface
guidelines. Things like button sizes, window margins, and inter-
control spacing are different. Also, old-style dialogs use Chicago/
Charcoal and Geneva, while Aqua should use Lucida Grande, and the text
metrics are different. Finally, you'll want to wire up outlets and
actions.
So it might not actually save you that much time to convert
automatically, compared to just recreating them from scratch. Building
a simple dialog in IB is incredibly fast; you just drag controls out
of the palettes and snap them into place using the automatic guides.
—Jens_______________________________________________
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