Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Re: [Pyobjc-checkins] [PyObjC-svn] r1605 - in trunk/pyobjc: . Examples/CoreData Examples/CoreData/OutlineEdit Examples/CoreData/OutlineEdit/English.lproj Examples/CoreData/OutlineEdit/English.lproj/MainMenu.nib Examples/CoreData/OutlineEdit/English.lproj/MyDocument.nib Examples/CoreData/OutlineEdit/MyDocument.xcdatamodel Lib/AppKit

[Ronald O. <ron...@ma...>]

On 1-mei-2005, at 23:47, Bob Ippolito wrote:

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> On May 1, 2005, at 5:34 PM, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
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>> On May 1, 2005, at 2:11 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
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>>> PyObjC doesn't currently have any facility to do this.  In/Out  
>>> and Out types *always* get passed a non-NULL argument.
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>> OK -- then, can we automatically generate the appropriate  
>> signatures for the (NSError **) arguments?
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>> Guido's time machine strikes again?
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> It's probably not too hard to set NSError** arguments to be "out".   
> It doesn't really make sense to make them in/out, because it  
> wouldn't let you pass NULL anyway, and as you said, it never  
> actually uses anything you pass in (other than the space to hold an  
> object pointer).

That's what I'm planning to do. After I added this specific signature  
I ran a script to find other pointer arguments and noticed a lot of  
methods with selectors ending with 'error:(id*)'. Automaticly  
"fixing" the signature should be easy.

Ronald

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