D/Objective-C Bridge

[Anders F Björklund]

Michel Fortin wrote:

> I took a look at Docoa a little while ago, but no, nothing is based on 
> it. I've written it all from scratch. I think the only thing we have in 
> common (and which could be harmonized) are the Objective-C runtime 
> declarations for types and functions (converted from C headers).

As far as I know, the Docoa project is dead. If not, it's now obsolete.

> This is the logical choice for the name of the function, but if this 
> doesn't work, I'd suggest tracing with the debugger into a real 
> Objective-C program to check. That's something I can't do on my machine.

We can take it off this forum. I subscribed to your newsletter,er,list.

>> It does send the event though, so it might just be "a cocoa thing".
>> (i.e. printing out the value to the console in the controller works)
> 
> It's missing its floating point return value. :-)

Not sure about that, since the return type is "void" for setFloatValue:

>> How do you intend to get around the copyright / distribution problem ?
> 
> Not sure yet. Perhaps it should be based on GNUStep instead of Cocoa 
> (while still making sure it works with Cocoa). Or perhaps we should just 
> ask Apple, they seem pretty cool with language bridges these days 
> (they're bundling PyObjC and RubyCocoa with Leopard I've heard).

I think it would be cool if GNUstep was supported, regardless of Apple.

> Erk. Sure, things could be patched, but I have the feeling a lot of 
> patches are going to be needed. I wonder how Apple did their bridge with 
> Java... oh, I see: that method just isn't there.

The JavaBridge is deprecated, so I don't think it sees much new stuff.

--anders