Has anyone else seen this?
Make a new Cocoa application project in Xcode 2.1. Open the MainMenu.nib file. Show the inspector for the window in that nib, and switch to the Size panel. Try to make the minimum and maximum sizes for the window the same, either by typing in numbers or hitting the “Current” buttons.
Can’t do it, can you? Whenever you try, Interface Builder automatically “fixes” the maximum value so it is 1 greater than the minimum value. The hell? What if I want the window not to be able to resize vertically or horizontally? It does this for every window, in every nib.
And while 1 pixel may not seem like much, it is definitely visible to the end user, which makes the whole interface look unpolished.
The workaround is to set the min and max values to the same thing programmatically, but that’s a pain in the ass, eh?
I didn’t see anyone complaining about this on the Apple mailing lists. Did this used to work? Am I missing something? Is this just a small enough deal that people live with it? (I’ve filed a bug.)
It also doesn’t look like I can make a little utility based on nibtool to fix this after I’ve made the nib in Interface Builder; while nibtool can show me the offending min/max values in text form, I can’t modify the text, then feed it back into nibtool to generate a changed nib.
I am using the Cocoa UI APIs and Interface Builder again after a hiatus, and I’m finding far more of these workarounds necessary than I would like for a “best of breed” technology.
Weaponized Fluff 