On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:56 PM, William Squires <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > 1st question: > In regular C, you have the <stdio.h> functions for reading/writing to stdio; > printf(), scanf(), etc... > In C++, you have cin/cout and the overridden '>>' and '<<' operators. > What does ObjC have (besides NSLog() anyway) that C/C++ doesn't?
NSFileHandle methods: +fileHandleWithStandardInput +fileHandleWithStandardError +fileHandleWithStandardOutput > I'm guessing Why? Just look at the standard I/O classes - it's right there in the reference material. > 2nd question: > Can a console app control the text 'cursor' in Terminal.app's window solely > through stdio? (i.e. are there control codes that clear the screen, locate > the cursor at some x,y location, set the text color/brightness (I know the > man page reader can, at the very least, change the text brightness), position > the cursor at the beginning/end of a line, etc...) You *could* deal with ANSI escape codes manually, but it's a massive PITA. Far easier to use something like Curses. > Are all the C libraries (with the possible exception of <stdio.h>) available > in iOS 3 and later? I haven't dived into iOS development yet, so I can't answer that one. > Are there any plans to include NumberFormatter and DateFormatter in iOS 5 > (or later)? If there are, no one who knows of them can tell you about them. That kind of thing is covered under NDA, and Apple takes those quite seriously. sherm-- -- Cocoa programming in Perl: http://camelbones.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
