[Pyobjc-dev] NSGraphicsContext.graphicsPort

[Robert K. <rk...@uc...>]

[Moderator: please ignore same message posted from GMane]

The current behavior of the NSGraphicsContext.graphicsPort method is to 
return a CGContextPtr instance from the Apple-built CoreGraphics 
wrappers. With any non-Apple Python installation, like Bob's build of 
Python 2.4.1, this module does not exist.

I have found that the CoreGraphics module is quite limited and totally 
unsuited for actual drawing, which would be the primary use case for the 
object returned from NSGraphicsContext.graphicsPort. So I wrote my own, 
more complete, and Pythonic CoreGraphics bindings using Pyrex. I grabbed 
the address of the pointer from the CGContextPtr object. However, with 
2.4.1, this doesn't work.

I would like to propose adding a keyword argument to this method to 
control the output.

   sillySwigThing = myContext.graphicsPort(rawptr=True)

To save hassle, I am happy with parsing the SWIG string encoding of the 
pointer address that is already built.

If this change is acceptable, I can draw up the patch myself.

Thank you.

-- 
Robert Kern
rk...@uc...

"In the fields of hell where the grass grows high
  Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
   -- Richard Harter