[MacRuby-devel] Noob question: Interface builder not picking up MacRuby definitions

[Robert Rice]

Hi Matt:

No, I didn't. I assumed it would be a known issue.
Any idea when Xcode 4 will available for general use?

Thanks,
Bob Rice

On Sep 15, 2010, at 12:39 PM, Matt Massicotte wrote:

> Bob,
> 
> Hopefully you've opened a bug on the IB performance you've observed.  I'm sure the team would be very interested in a perf problem that makes IB that unusable.
> 
> Matt
> 
> On Sep 15, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Robert Rice wrote:
> 
>> Hi Iain:
>> 
>> As my app has grown IB became very, very slow to update my MacRuby class information. Because of that I tend to avoid using IB to link outlets. Instead I tag my subfields and search for then in my initialization scripts using view.viewWithTag and for my new MacRuby classes I paste in the superclass information rather than waiting for IB to find it.
>> 
>> I think this slowness to update is a main reason for integrating IB with Xcode 4. Unfortunately Xcode 4 is still only available to paid developers.
>> 
>> Hope this helps.
>> 
>> Bob Rice
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 15, 2010, at 6:50 AM, Iain Barnett wrote:
>> 
>>> On 15 Sep 2010, at 10:45, Felix Holmgren wrote:
>>> 
>>>> This might not be it, but IB is in generall pretty bad at picking up
>>>> changes in code. Try Reload All Class Files from the File menu. When
>>>> you're coding Objective-C you sometimes even have to do "Read All
>>>> Class Files..." and manually point IB to the right header file. IB is
>>>> great in general, but this can be pretty frustrating."
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the reply. I tried reloading the files and no change. I also tried dragging the file into the IB window but get the message "Parsed 1 source file but no classes were found or changed. I get this message even if I do change the file.
>>> 
>>> This is repeatable and only happens with MacRuby, (I just tested it with a brand new project) so I don't think it's (solely) down to this kind of flakiness or I'd expect to work once in the n times I've tried it.
>>> 
>>> Or maybe I am as unlucky as my lottery winnings suggest? :(
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Iain
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