[Pyobjc-dev] Fwd: I assume a similar fix would make initWithHTML work?

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

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> From: Ronald Oussoren <ous...@ci...>
> Date: Mon Mar 24, 2003  18:50:54 Europe/Amsterdam
> To: Rod Morehead <rm...@rm...>
> Subject: Re: I assume a similar fix would make initWithHTML work?
>
> Yes, the signature strings for init methods should all start with 
> '@@:' or '@0@4:8' (the latter are magic numbers generated by the 
> compiler, but strangely enough not by the runtime).
>
> Ronald
>
> On Monday, Mar 24, 2003, at 18:21 Europe/Amsterdam, Rod Morehead wrote:
>
>> Message: 4
>> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:01:47 +0100
>> Subject: Re: [Pyobjc-dev] 
>> NSAttributedString.initWithPath_documentAttributes_
>> Cc: pyo...@li...
>> To: Steve Reeves <st...@sy...>
>> From: Ronald Oussoren <ous...@ci...>
>>
>>
>> On Monday, Mar 24, 2003, at 08:16 Europe/Amsterdam, Steve Reeves 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to load some data into an NSAttributedString with the
>>> initWithPath_documentAttributes_ method (or one of the other
>>> initWith...
>>> variants in AppKit) and am having trouble:
>>>
>>> ~ % /usr/bin/python
>>> Python 2.2 (#1, 07/14/02, 23:25:09)
>>> [GCC Apple cpp-precomp 6.14] on darwin
>>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more 
>>> information.
>>>>>> import objc
>>>>>> import Foundation
>>>>>> import AppKit
>>>>>> foo = Foundation.NSAttributedString.alloc()
>>>>>> foo. initWithPath_documentAttributes_('aFile', objc.nil)
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>>> objc.internal_error: objc_sizeof_type: Unhandled type '0x38
>>
>> That's a bug, but luckily an easy to solve one. I've just checked in a
>> fixed for this. A quick fix would be to change
>> objc/_FoundationSignatures.py. Look for
>> 'initWithPath:documentAttributes:' and add '@@:' at the start of the
>> signature string (currently starting with '8').
>>
>> Your code still won't work with that version: The last argument of the
>> method is an output parameter, those are not present in the python
>> argument list. The last call should be:
>>
>> 	foo, documentAttributes = 
>> foo.initWithPath_documentAttributes_('aFile')
>>
>> Ronald
>>
>>
>