Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Altered classes

[Steven D. M. <sd...@mi...>]

On Fri, 11 May 2001, Bill Bumgarner wrote:

> There is a lot more that goes on ApplicationMain and in the startup of
> the application than you might otherwise expect given evidence at
> runtime.   In particular, there is all kinds of binding to the Finder
> and the WindowServer, etc...

The objc runtime has been released as part of Darwin.
It's a pity they don't release the code for ApplicationMain too.
It's obvious that LOTS more is going on than what's documented.
(And it looks like it's going to be quite a while before Apple
 fills some of the holes and "To Be Determined"'s in the docs!
 That's the main thing I like about open source -- even more than
 the price. In my VMS days, DEC gave us a microfiche of the VMS
 sources  -- very unlikely that I was going to type it all in and
 steal their code -- but it was nice to know that it was POSSIBLE,
 even if difficult to find an answer!)

> I know why the Application delegate stuff isn't working and how to fix
> it.  I'll try to do so on the train home tonight and commit the code
> tonight/tomorrow.   It ain't pretty but, thankfully, I solved the
> problem before.   (If interested, see the mssh project--
> http://www.codefab.com/pub/unsupported.  While there, see NoisyAppKit--
> it spews everything that happens at app launch on mach ports...).

This is good news. But I'll probably still try building a debuggable
objc-runtime from Darwin sources -- it still may come in handy to be
able to step across the bridge in debugging!


-- Steve Majewski