Compiling VLC works but changes in nib files won't appear

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Compiling VLC works but changes in nib files won't appear

Postby crackstone » 20 Jul 2011 21:50

Hi,

I'm a newbie in vlc development for mac and have a question concerning user interface changes.
I've been playing around with vlc-1.1.11 source on Mac OS X 10.6 lately and wanted to change stuff in the GUI (extras/package/macosx/Resources/English.lproj/Open.nib). However the changes won't appear in the built app. I searched the Makefile for some sort of rebuild-gui command but couldn't find one. One time I had to rebuild VLC with the configure flag --with-macosx-sdk=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk due to a problem with missing header files in the 10.5.sdk - suddenly the changes I did in Open.nib appeared (bootstrap, configure, make). So I tried changing stuff in the GUI again - hitting make -> no success; hitting bootstrap, configure... and make -> no success. If I change stuff in the code hitting make suffices in order to test my changes.

So.... my question: How do I explicitly build the GUI in order to see my changes?

Thanks

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Re: Compiling VLC works but changes in nib files won't appea

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 21 Jul 2011 01:01

maybe rm -rf VLC.app and make VLC.app could help.
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Re: Compiling VLC works but changes in nib files won't appea

Postby crackstone » 21 Jul 2011 09:42

cool thanks that worked... didn't think of removing VLC.app before hitting make VLC.app again :)

Thanks!
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Re: Compiling VLC works but changes in nib files won't appea

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 21 Jul 2011 11:45

:)

This is why the nibs weren't updated. You don't need to re-bootstrap...
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