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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Interface Builder strategies?
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Date: 12 Jan 89 15:18:41 GMT
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Does anybody out there have a good strategy for using Interface Builder to
MODIFY as well as build user interfaces?

I've been "decompiling" my applications, then editing the produced source
code.  That's fine, but if I want to add new instance variables or methods
relating to the user interface, I have to do so by hand, since re-decompiling
wipes out any changes made to IB-generated source.

Does anybody have a satisfactory way to 1) CONVENIENTLY partition code between
IB-built code and user-written code or 2) cleverly use diff and ed to merge
old and new versions of IB-generated files?

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Steve
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