On Mar 6, 2010, at 6:41 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 03/06/2010 02:22 PM, Lawson English wrote: >> Does the CObject FFI allow you to do what F_script does and examine the >> entire object tree written in Cocoa? That would at least for Macs, give >> you a full blown GUI external to the Squeak desktop.
We've done this using aliens in Newspeak (see ObjectiveCAline and friends). To do a real GUI is more involved, because of MacOS threading issues (which thread is in control etc.). We hope to fix this in time, and of course provide a fully native binding for the Brazil/Hopscotch GUI on macs, as we do on Windows. > > You _can_ write an Objective-C binding using CObject (as in, it's been done). > The painful part is converting NSArray <-> Array and NSString <-> String. > > However, nice-looking bindings will always have a part written in C that will > be VM-dependent, which is why I put this project last. It is much less > useful than it looks. Inteoperating smoothly with the rest of the world is very useful. Cheers, Gilad _______________________________________________ help-smalltalk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk
