Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Problems loading Bundle variables

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

On 23-feb-05, at 18:45, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>
>> OK, everything works great using ctypes. So is there
>> any benefit to using objc.loadBundleFunctions? Could
>> it be updated to be as useful as ctypes so I wouldn't
>> have to require an extra library?
>
> The benefit to objc.loadBundleFunctions is that it understands 
> Objective-C types very well, so it works great for the kind of 
> functions you find in Objective-C frameworks.  It is not a general 
> solution to calling arbitrary C functions.  It could be, but that's 
> not an immediate goal and is quite unlikely to happen anytime soon 
> (definitely not in PyObjC 1.3).

As Bob said objc.loadBundleFunctions is there to make it easier to wrap 
ObjC frameworks. Reinventing ctypes is not a goad of PyObjC, although 
we might end up with simular capabilities in the future.

Ronald