Re: [Pyobjc-dev] NSRects and NSPoints as tuples...

[Bob I. <bo...@ma...>]

On Wednesday, Jan 8, 2003, at 11:55 America/New_York, Dinu Gherman 
wrote:

> I've read somewhere and experienced now myself that NSRects and
> NSPoints are mapped to 2-2 and 2-tuples of numbers respectively.
>
> While this is surely more convenient and more Pythonic in most cir-
> cumstances I feel like it has the drawback that existing Cocoa
> code calling attributes like size, width/height or x/y of NSRect
> will need to be "ported" to the more Pythonic way in a more than
> just syntactical fashion.
>
> In this case it means going from rather clear names to numeric
> indices, which have a higher potential to confuse their users.
>
> Am I correctly assuming that this is working "as designed", then?
> ;-)

pygame ( www.pygame.org ) does the equivalent of NSRect in its Rect 
class, and it's got all of the height/width/etc niceness.. might even 
be worth just yanking some of the code out and using that, as they have 
a bunch of nice functions for working on them as well.

-bob