Re: [Pyobjc-dev] contextInfo Parameters: Sometimes Ints and Sometimes Pointers

[Michael T. <li...@mj...>]

On Apr 19, 2006, at 2:14 PM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

> On 17-apr-2006, at 21:29, Michael Tsai wrote:
>>
>> More generally, I don't see how PyObjC can make all ("unless  
>> otherwise noted") contextInfos ints when many of the methods whose  
>> signatures would need to be modified are undocumented.
>
> There's code in objc._convenience.py that assumes that all  
> contextInfo's where the ObjC argument specification is a 'void*'  
> are just cookies. The method signature for those is translated into  
> an integer because that seems to be the best we can do without  
> risking random crashes.

Right, but what happens when it encounters an undocumented selector  
that doesn't include ":contextInfo:" but does have a void*? At  
present, it doesn't treat this parameter as an integer, and this  
causes problems when the parameter is actually a contextInfo, as  
explained in my previous message.

Perhaps it would be better to treat void* parameters as integers by  
default.

--Michael