How to manually remove the Interface Builder plugin dependency for BGHUDAppKit
Xcode 4 doesn’t support Interface Builder Plugin any more, so we have to remove all 3rd party Interface Builder Plugins.
Unfortunately, all the *.xib files in my project can’t be managed by Xcode 4 automatically, it told me that the given plugin file of BGHUDAppKit can’t be decoded by some errors…So I have to remove the plugin dependency by hands without any other choice:(
The following list is the procedure which I succeeded with at last.
- Open your *.xib files with Interface Builder 3.2.6 (which is included in Xcode 3.2.6), press OPT+CMD+I to open the Info panel, change “Development Target” to “Interface Builder 3.2”.
- Search “BGHUD” in the search field, and change all BGHUD controls’ class name to their corresponding class name but with a redundant letter among “BGHUD”, like “BG0HUDButtonCell” for “BGHUDButtonCell”.
- CMD+S, save all your modifications.
- Open your *.xib files with any text editor (Such as Kod, Sublime Text 2, TextMate, etc.)
- Find a block like the following one:
<dictionary class="NSMutableDictionary" key="IBDocument.PluginVersions"> <string key="com.apple.InterfaceBuilder.CocoaPlugin">851</string> <string key="com.binarymethod.BGHUDAppKitPlugin">1</string> </dictionary>
- Remove this line:
<string key="com.binarymethod.BGHUDAppKitPlugin">1</string>
- Find another block like the following one:
<array key="IBDocument.PluginDependencies"> <string>com.apple.InterfaceBuilder.CocoaPlugin</string> <string>com.binarymethod.BGHUDAppKitPlugin</string> </array>
- Remove this line:
<string>com.binarymethod.BGHUDAppKitPlugin</string> - Then search all the following line:
com.binarymethod.BGHUDAppKitPlugin
- Replace them with:
com.apple.InterfaceBuilder.CocoaPlugin
- Search all BGHUDLabel, and replace them with NSTextField.
- Search all BGHUDTableViewHeaderCell, and replace them with NSTableHeaderCell.
- Search all BGHUDTableCornerView, and replace them with NSView.
- Search all >BGHUD, and replace them with >NS.
- Search all “BGHUD, and replace them with “NS.
- Search the following line and replace them with empty.
<string key="themeKey">gradientTheme</string>
- Then search themeKey again to check if there is any other themeKey. If any exists, write down these keys somewhere else and remove them too.
- Search all BG0HUD, and replace them with BGHUD.
- Open your *.xib files by Interface Builder 3.2.6.
- If you have any customized theme key, click on the related control’s cell, press CMD+6 and add a new attribute in User Defined Runtime Attributes.
- Choose string type, its Key Path is “themeKey”, and its value is the name of your customized theme key.
- If you have any Radio Button or Checkbox with BGHUDButtonCell, you have to add another attribute to its cell. Its type is Number, Key Path is “buttonType”, value is 3 for Checkbox, 4 for Radio Button.
- If you have customized the Gradient colors of a BGHUDView, to have the same effect without plugin, you can create a subclass for that view, and add the following codes in Xcode.
@interface MyCustomizedView : BGHUDView @end @implementation MyCustomizedView - (void)awakeFromNib { [self setUseTheme:NO]; [self setFlipGradient:NO]; [self setColor1:[NSColor colorWithDeviceWhite:0.0f alpha:1.0f]]; [self setColor2:[NSColor colorWithDeviceWhite:0.5f alpha:1.0f]]; [self setBorderColor:[NSColor colorWithDeviceWhite:1.0f alpha:1.0f]]; [self setDrawBottomBorder:YES]; } @end
- Then set this view’s class to “MyCustomizedView” in Interface Builder.
