On May 14, 2008, at 9:13 AM, glenn andreas wrote:
Also, when you support localization, you really need to use NIBs. Different languages can easily require different layouts, due to string lengths (German UI text tends to be _much_ longer often requiring serious re-do of layouts), cultural norms (Left to Right vs Right to Left), etc.... If you do everything in code, you're going to have to figure out what the current locale/language is, map it to what languages you support, and then do your layout from there. By using NIBs, you can just have a different layout with a differently localization and the system takes care of everything else.
Actually, there are many frameworks that do dynamic layouts with widgets that will automatically resize to fit their labels (Java Swing for example). I'm not aware of an easy way of doing this in native Cocoa, but it should be possible do have proper localization support without having separate NIB files for each language. I'm expecting that Qt/Cocoa and wxCocoa will deliver such implementations.
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