Thanks Nick, I appreciate the tutorial.
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Nick Ludlam <n...@recoil.org> wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > >
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