Re: [hoc-users] NSView/AppKit functions

[Wolfgang T. <wol...@gm...>]

> I'm trying to write a custom NSView in Haskell.  For academic  
> purposes, I'm just trying to provide a basic drawRect selector; one  
> which just draws a frame around the bounds of the view.  However, I  
> am not seeing how to access the NSFrameRect() functions and friends.
>
> This seems to be a similar problem to the one I was describing in  
> my last message in regards to NSLog().  Is there some way to access  
> these functions from within Haskell with the use of HOC, or do I  
> manually have to wrangle in the functions through ffi?  Is this an  
> area which just needs development, and will be supported in future  
> versions?

It is an area that needed development until a few days ago :-).
Functions with a fixed number of arguments are now imported  
automatically in the bindings (as long as all the argument types are  
supported by hoc). Supporting variable-argument functions like NSLog  
would be quite hard and I think NSLog alone is not worth it - it's  
easier to just write somehting to stderr yourself.

Cheers,

Wolfgang