On Oct 8, 2008, at 11:44 PM, Luis Rojas wrote:
I am trying to make a tool that uses cocoa classes but i am stuck in
one
basic point. How do i read text on the terminal? and where can i
find more
information if i want to make cocoa applications that is main
interface is
the terminal.
Cocoa doesn't necessarily provide classes to take over every task you
might ever want to do. In particular, there's a reason that Objective-
C is a superset of C -- it lets you keep using C wherever that's more
appropriate.
I expect you'll find that for what you're trying to do (reading text
on the terminal), stdio is still the best approach.
Of course, there's no reason that you can't mix Cocoa in with such
code. For example, creating an NSString from the text that you've
read, or using arrays and dictionaries for data storage, etc.
If you really feel the urge to go all Cocoa, +[NSFileHandle
fileHandleWithStandardInput] gives you an object for reading from
standard input. However, it doesn't include convenient methods for
line-based input.
Cheers,
Ken
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