Re: [MacRuby-devel] Using Virtus or SmartProperty as outlets?

2012-11-22 Thread Carolyn Ann Grant
Hmm… I didn't think of either of those. I knew I was missing something obvious! A case of missing the wood for the trees, I think. :-) Thanks, Colin and Steve! /Carolyn On Nov 22, 2012, at 4:51 AM, Steve Clarke st...@sclarkes.me.uk wrote: I think that discussions about validation of user

[MacRuby-devel] Using Virtus or SmartProperty as outlets?

2012-11-21 Thread Carolyn Ann Grant
I've done a bit of Googling, but couldn't find anything on this. I'd like to use something like SmartProperties (for lightweight situations) or Virtus (when I absolutely must have industrial-strength validations, etc) as outlets. My experiments, such as they are, aren't helping me any! What, if

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Using Virtus or SmartProperty as outlets?

2012-11-21 Thread Carolyn Ann Grant
Sorry - I didn't make that clear! You're right, Stephen: I'd like to Virtus' attribute or SmartProperty's property *instead* of attr_accessor. I can roll my own solution, but I'd like to not have to! (Besides laziness, and the strong possibility of introducing bugs into any solution I come up

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Using Virtus or SmartProperty as outlets?

2012-11-21 Thread david kramf
Basically, I need to make sure that when I ask for an integer, I get an integer. And when I want a string - I can reject anything but strings. Can't you use Ruby services like is_a? to force it ? Thanks, David Kramf On Nov 21, 2012, at 10:04 PM, Carolyn Ann Grant wrote: Basically, I need to