I have a static library that includes some xibs. These will basically be the same across projects. I'd like to include the xibs as part of the library. I can include their veiwcontrollers, reference these controllers in the calling project but then there isn't a xib to load. When I right click the xib in the library project, it can't be part of the target.
I thought about creating a CFPluginBundle but that creates a new project. I'd loose all of my IBOutlet and IBAction references. What is the best way to reuse xibs that also have outlets and actions to specific controllers?
Here more discussion about it: Can you reference Xib files from static libraries on the iPhone?
I had the same problem when I wanted to export my project as a library for other developers to use.
I found the perfect solution to my view and it seems it will answer yours too.
There is an xcode plugin that allows you to build your project as a library which includes the resources as well.
https://github.com/kstenerud/iOS-Universal-Framework
I do not know the guys that built this plugin, but it works like a charm
I'm not sure what you mean by "include the xibs as part of the library", since static libraries can't have resources--but they also aren't shipped stand-alone, so they don't need to. If you just want code re-use for your own projects, you could keep the xibs where-ever you keep the static library, and just include the xibs in any project that uses the library.
If you go the CFPluginBundle route, you can make new bundle targets in an existing project; there's nothing magic about the templates, they just take care of making dummy files and turning on the right build settings. You can copy those into a new target in your existing project and it will work just fine. That said, I'm not sure what you mean about losing IBOutlet and IBAction references, since that information is part of the xib (and the class you are using in the xib), not the project.
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I have a question regarding importing subclasses into projects. We often find useful subclasses on GitHub that we can use. In my case it's just a Swift Xcode project which is a Swift port of an Objective-C subclass.
Contains what you see below.
There's no storyboard or anything so I'm wondering why the product folder at the bottom has a SiriWaveformView.framework suitcase icon but there is no framework with this name in the Finder.
Is this technically a framework/API? Do I simply copy SiriWaveformView.swift and SiriWaveformView.h into my own project? How do I connect an interface object to this class?
I've created a static library and a resource bundle for reusing code and assets across several projects.
Within the static library, I have a manager class whose sole purpose is to create other UIViewControllers, whose views are created from .xib files (using the common initWithNibName:bundle: method).
When I create the view in Interface Builder, the images show correctly. However, when I run the app on the simulator, I get this error:
Could not load the "<image_name.png>" image referenced from a nib in the
bundle with identifier "com.<my_company>.<app_identifer>"
After hours of grinding, I finally inspected the resources bundle, and I found that the .png files weren't in it! Instead, .tiff files of the same name (excluding #2x versions) were there instead.
All of the images are included within the bundle's build phase under copy bundle resources , and I've used the images on other iOS projects (so they're not corrupted).
Has anyone else experienced this? Is it safe to assume that the images will always be added to the bundle as .tiff? (And if so, is it safe to just change the image name in interface builder to .tiff?) Or am I doing something incorrect here?
Thanks for your help in advance.
For the issue of resource bundles , refer to this link as it has a couple of similar faced queries.
Conversion Resource bundle
Tell me which answer really helped you solve this issue. Thanks.
This Solved my problem
In your bundle target Go to,
Build Settings > COMBINE_HIDPI_IMAGES and set to NO
So I'm using the Static Library template included in Xcode. Right now just trying to build a simple template to see how static libraries really work.
Anyways in my static library I have two classes:
mylibrary (.h/.m) - This is simply an NSObject
modalView (.h/.m) - This is a UIViewController
The problem though is when I build the static library. The project builds the mylibrary.a file... however there is no "Headers" folder in the output. This means that when I add the library to my other project it gives "undefined" errors because it can't find the .h file for myLibrary.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks
You need to drag .h files to the new project, along with .a file
I have a bunch of scripts here:
https://github.com/drekka/dUsefulStuff/tree/master/scripts
Which I use to build static libraries and frameworks. You might find them useful in helping to assemble your library. The main (controller) build script is here
https://github.com/drekka/dUsefulStuff/blob/master/build.sh
I'm new to MonoTouch and iPhone development. I have my images (PNG) in a resources folder in MonoDevelop, however if I want to set the image property for a button in Interface Builder, how do I do that? It's always a blank dropdown. Do I need to use XCode to access the XIB file and then somehow embed the button image file I'll need in it?
This is a known limitation of MonoDevelop and Interface Builder. To add images to an XIB in Interface Builder they must be part of an XCode project, which of course coming from MonoDevelop they're not.
To achieve what you're trying to do you will need to set the image via code, and ensure the build action of your image is set to Content. To do this, simply right click your image inside MonoDevelop, and select Build Action > Content.
On your view with the button on it, create an outlet in Interface Builder for your button, hook it up, then from code to set your image, you just need to use the .FromFile("path/name") method of UIImage.
UIImage buttonImage = UIImage.FromFile ("resources/image.png");
myButton.SetBackgroundImage (buttonImage,UIControlState.Normal);
That's off the top of my head, but I think that should do it.
You can manually set the image in Interface Builder, but it wont show up until run time. The image name can include a path, e.g. "images/settings.png".
All solutions given here are completely wrong and misleading. All you need to do, is place your images in the Resources folder (on the project root), and add your images to this folder. After adding files to this folder, mark all files and make sure their build action is set to BundleResource.
I also needed this to work, here is a workaround I found.
You need to create a dummy xcode project. Place it in the same folder as your project.
Add all your xib files and image files to that xcode project by dragging them in when the project is opened in xcode. Now you will be able to see the preview of the images.
The image files must be in the same folder as the project file and xcode must be opened with the dummy project while the interface builder is opened.
Not great - but solves the issue for now.
Here is a sample project I have created.
For this issue to be resolved on the MonoDevelop side - some inter-process communication code needs to be created, I think that a good starting point will be looking for "PBXProjectWatcherServerConnection-3.1.2" in google.
I have refactored some UIView sub-classes into a static library. However, when using Interface Builder to create view components for a project that uses the static library I find that it is unaware of the library classes. What do I need to do to make the class interfaces visible to Interface Builder?
Update: The correct answer refers to dragging the headers into the 'XIB browser'. The '.h' files can be dragged from a finder window to the window area identified in this image:
alt text http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/1221/xibbrowser.png
Try dragging the static library into your xib browser in Interface Builder. I haven't tried this with a static library, but the concept is the same. When you drag header files into IB, you can access those classes.
LexH, try linking with the -ObjC flag when building your static library. That worked for me... for about a year :-) I found this post as the problem has returned with a fresh OSX install and an upgrade in xcode. But it worked in XCode 3.1.2.
David
Add the same problem as LexH. It worked only when I called a dummy class method.
The problem was that I did not add my static library to the "link binary with libraries" under target.
Strangely everything else worked.
I followed this guide to link with my static lib Create static lib
I had the same problem. Dragging the library or headers to XIB Browser didn't work. Read Class Files didn't work. So I called:
[MyLibraryClass version]; // Substitute your class name for "MyLibraryClass".
This worked. version is a class method of NSObject, so all subclasses of NSObject inherit it.