Just to follow up:
I have done the "hack" discussed below (and on the WOLips site) and it
does still fix the WOBuilder/WOLips integration problem (at least on
MacOSX 10.3.4, WO 5.2.4, WOLips 1.1.0.70 beta1).
Cheers,
Ashley.
On 23/07/2004, at 7:19 AM, Ashley Aitken wrote:
>
> Howdy All,
>
> On 23/07/2004, at 5:27 AM, Chuck Hill wrote:
>>> 1) Is there a way to get WOBuilder to read the instance variables in
>>> the bottom pane for drag and drop?
>>>
>> Which OS? On Windows it works as poorly as it always did. On MacOs,
>> there is a hack at
>> http://www.objectstyle.org/woproject/wolips.html
>> That seems to work. Then again, sometimes this does not work all
>> that well even with xCode to begin with.
>
> I've used this hack before and it worked fine for Eclipse 2.1.3 and
> WOBuilder - it does (or did) unfortunately stop things working
> somewhat with Xcode, i.e. you had to choose either to have things
> working completely in Eclipse or to have things working completely in
> Xcode.
>
> I believe the problem is/was that the way Xcode and WOBuilder
> communicate has changed recently and WOLips hadn't/hasn't been updated
> to handle this new method/API. I think the hack reverts the
> communication method to the old way, so now WOLips works but Xcode has
> problems.
>
> It was easy enough, though, to setup a little script that could easily
> change from one set of files (ie framework versions) to another so you
> could go back and forth between Eclipse and Xcode. I believe the
> changes only affected WOBuilder and EOModeller, but I guess it could
> cause problems with InterfaceBuilder - I'm not sure.
>
> All that said, I was hoping the WOLips release for Eclipse 3.0.0. was
> going to make this hack unnecessary, but now that I think back I am
> not so sure that was the case. I believe WOLips people were even
> thinking about developing their own solution to replace WOBuilder, so
> perhaps it is not as easy to fix this problem ...
>
> Of course, all this is just my limited understanding, someone from
> WOLips should be able to provide a more authoritative explanation.
>
> Cheers,
> Ashley.
>
> PS I've CC'ed this to woproject-de..bjectstyle.org
-- Ashley Aitken Perth, Western Australia mrhatken at mac dot com
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