Ciprian
this is really cool to see how pushing and enhancing NativeBoost.
Really a cool nd warm feeling.
Tx for your energy and time.
Stef
On Dec 11, 2012, at 8:33 PM, Ciprian Teodorov wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> today I have commited to the NativeBoost repository a new core class, the
> NBExternalEnumerationType,
> which reifies the enum declarations in C and offers a nice interface
> (especially in terms of debug/inspect).
>
> To use it just subclass the NBExternalEnumeration and add an #enumDecl method
> to the class side such as:
>
Did you add this cool class comment :)
> NBExternalEnumeration subclass: #NBTestEnumeration
> instanceVariableNames: ''
> classVariableNames: ''
> poolDictionaries: ''
> category: 'NativeBoost-Tests'
>
> NBTestEnumeration class>>enumDecl
> ^ {(#AAA -> 1).
> (#BBB -> 2).
> (#CCC -> 3).
> (#DDD -> 2400)} asDictionary
>
> DO NOT FORGET to call the #initialize method on your class. The rest is
> automatically done ;)
>
> You can use your new enum in two ways:
> • add it to a client class poolDictionaries list (see
> #NBExternalEnumTests for an example), and then just write CCC in your code --
> CCC here is an item of your enum
> • or you can send the name of an item to your class ---
> NBTestEnumeration DDD
> The NBExternalEnumeration implements (instance and class) some more API
> methods like:
> • #itemAt: retrieves the item having a specific value ---
> NBTestEnumeration itemAt: 2
> • #includes: checks the existence of a specific item in the enum ---
> NBTestEnumeration includes: #AAA
> Having this already gives us a nice interface to working with enums. Now I
> plan to improve a little bit on performance and usage scenarios:
> • the possibility to accept smalltalk integers as valid input/output
> for functions(or callbacks) that use enums as arguments/return.
> • support the different representation types for the enum values
> (int/uint)
> So that will be for now. Feel free to try it out and send me any comments
> and/or improvement ideas, It will be my pleasure to improve it.
> Cheers,
> --
> Dr. Ciprian TEODOROV
> Ingénieur Développement CAO
>
> tél : 06 08 54 73 48
> mail : [email protected]
> www.teodorov.ro
