Re: [Pyobjc-dev] using PyObjCPointers (howto?)

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

On 30 Jan, 2008, at 23:33, Scott Herzinger wrote:

> I'm looking for an idiom by which I can use a given PyObjCPointer,  
> that I get back from some Cocoa API, as a Carbon object (or pointer  
> thereto). My specific requirement currently is to take a  
> PyObjCPointer that I get back from a QTKit API, and use its referent  
> as a Carbon.Qt.Media object.

PyObjCPointer objects are an indication of an incomplete wrapping of a  
framework. Which method returns a PyObjCPointer and in which version  
of PyObjC?

In PyObjC2 a PyObjCPointer has an "pointerAsInteger" atrribute that  
returns the numeric value of the pointer, I don't remember if PyObjC1  
has the same attribute. With that value and ctypes you can contruct a  
Carbon.QT object.

BTW. What OS release are you targetting? Apple is clearly stearing  
away from the Carbon QuickTime API's in favour of QTKit (no 64-bit  
support in the Carbon API, no new development as well).

Ronald