Very hard to figure out errors in Xib2Nib output

[marczellm]

Xib2Nib errors out on one of our xib files. I started commenting out parts of the file and calling Xib2Nib from the command line until I seemed to find the offending part and left it commented out. Now I can call xib2nib from the command line and it successfully makes a nib.

However if I run the VS build, at the end the xib compilation still fails with the same error.

Another problem is that the error message is more than 100 lines long therefore impossible to interpret.
I cannot post the xib file because of company policy.

[DHowett-MSFT]

Hi @marczellm,
Thanks for reporting this! If you'd feel more comfortable e-mailing about this issue, I'm at [email protected].

If not, I'd love to work with you to find a minimal repro case. Can you share the error message?

[marczellm]

Okay I misinterpreted the build output. Turns out that during the Visual Studio build, xib2nib dumps all its output in the console but without ever specifying which xib file it errored out on. (The console listed all the xib files first, and then listed all the errors.)

So this becomes a feature request:

• Xib2Nib should give an explanation when failing to process storyboard #2090
• Make Xib2Nib output the name of which file it errored out on
• Make the error message one line instead of proportional to XML depth