Thanks Shaun, I'm in the process of revising the tutorial from a couple of other people's feedback, so I'll take a look at this too.
Nick On 20 Oct 2010, at 21:04, Shaun August wrote: > Thanks Mario, > > I am digging into the tutorial right now and I realize a pretty important > piece of information is missing. After adding the bundle target I need to > create a "Copy Headers" folder in the TagLibBundle but the instructions don't > say what to do: > > Adding our Bundle target > The first thing we need to do is add a new Target to our project. Select “New > Target…” from the Project menu, and select a Mac OS X Cocoa Loadable Bundle. > Call this TagLibBundle. Find the new target icon, and select the project. Now > from the Project menu, add a new > > Now we need to copy over the details of which files are used. Open up the > “Copy Headers” folder inside the TagLib target. Shift-select every file in > this folder, and drag it into the equivalent, empty folder in our new > TagLibBundle Target. Repeat this step with the “Compile Sources” folder. > > > Now from the project menu, add a new... From what I can see it is add a new > copy headers build phase. > > I haven't dug in to making changes to the MacRuby site but perhaps someone > who can would find the time to update the tutorial? > > Thanks, > > Shaun > > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Mario Steele <ma...@ruby-im.net> wrote: > Hello Shaun, > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Shaun August <sh...@eoslightmedia.com> > wrote: > Hi Robert, > > Thanks! That make sense. All those cocoa classes have capitals and they work > fine. I seem to be able to call from the framework but I am running into an > undefined method 'extern'. I have also read somewhere that extern doesn't > work with MacRuby. Is that correct? The framework I am dealing with is > calling C functions and I am having trouble accessing them. > > extern is a macro for the ld library, to export an API Address in the Dynamic > library, that can be access dynamically at run time. With Objective-C, or > more so specifically with MacRuby, you need to write a sort of thin wrapper > around C Functions in Objective C, in order to access said Functions. So if > the framework that you are working with, doesn't expose Objective C API > Functions, you'll need to write a thin wrapper in order to access them. See > the tutorial done by Nick Ludlam about wrapping the TagLib C Library, in > Objective C. You can find it here: > http://www.macruby.org/documentation/reading-an-mp3-with-macruby.html It's > best to read through the entire article, as it gives you information about > wrapping C Functions in Objective C, which is quite useful, when writing your > own wrapper. > > hth, > > Mario > > Thanks, > > Shaun > > > On 2010-10-19, at 8:26 PM, Robert Rice wrote: > > > Hi Shaun: > > > > Lower case method names is only a convention. MacRuby will work fine using > > upper case, i.e., constant, method names. > > I know because I only recently changed my project to conform to the > > convention. > > > > Bob Rice > > > > > > On Oct 19, 2010, at 7:17 PM, Shaun August wrote: > > > >> Hi There, > >> > >> I am attempting to work with a framework provided by a USB device > >> manufacturer and all of their method names start with capitols and I am > >> wondering about the easiest way to access these methods through macruby. I > >> remember reading somewhere about fixing the constants in Obj-C but I > >> cannot locate the information. > >> > >> Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to remedy this? Should I rename > >> every command in the framework? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Shaun > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> MacRuby-devel mailing list > >> MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > >> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MacRuby-devel mailing list > > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > > > > -- > Mario Steele > Lieutenant Commander 3 > XO - Geo 99 > XO - STO IFT Fleet > http://www.trekfederation.com > http://geo99.ruby-im.net > > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
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