Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Is this real?

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

On 23-mei-04, at 9:35, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>> Where should I start in proving I've RTFM? How about this:
>>
>> % cp -R src/PythonGlue.* simpleComboBoxPlus
>>
>> Where is "src"? Search on google for "PythonGlue.h" yields no clue as 
>> to its contents. Search on my hard drive yields no result. I find the 
>> whole of pyobjc documentation this confusing. Not criticizing, I know 
>> its a lot of work and few people. I just wasn't born knowing this 
>> stuff.
>
> [crack:~/src/pyobjc] bob% find . -name "PythonGlue.*"
> ./Doc/tutorial_embed/src/PythonGlue.h
> ./Doc/tutorial_embed/src/PythonGlue.m
> ./Doc/tutorial_embed/src/PythonGlue.py
>
> That's from CVS, I have no idea what the "pyobjc latest" you installed 
> contains or where you looked.

Those should be in the release as wel (both 1.0 and 1.1b)

>
>> What do I do to get my ObjC classes to see my python classes or my 
>> python classes to see MY ObjC classes (former better, but either 
>> good)?
>>
>> Shouldn't it be (almost) as simple as:
>>
>>    #include "somefile"
>
> I can't imagine it will be that simple any time soon, it would be hard 
> to generate Objective C header files from arbitrary Python source 
> code.

and generating the header files is the easy part :-)

>
>> or
>>
>>    import somemodule
>
> Using ObjC classes from Python is pretty easy.. either create a module 
> and use objc.loadBundle(...), or if you just need a reference to a 
> class that is already linked in then you can do objc.lookUpClass(...). 
>  Both are used all over the place in PyObjC's source code, though I 
> did change the semantics of loadBundle slightly today.
>
> Unfortunately, I'm pretty busy and don't have time to write up any 
> examples or go through the documentation and fix things.. so I hope 
> this helped.
>
> -bob
>
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