[Rubycocoa-talk] iokit support?

[Axel M. R. <rub...@ro...>]

Hi,
I want to incorporate Obj-C classes from AMSerialPort 
<http://www.harmless.de/cocoa.php> in my RubyCocoa project. The 
problem is that these refer to IOkit classes, and use CoreFoundation 
char* string constants (kIOSerialBSDModemType), which are not 
available in Ruby.

The reference in Obj-C is:
#import <IOKit/serial/IOSerialKeys.h>
// note: the constants are C strings, so use '@' or CFSTR to convert, 
for example:
// NSArray *ports = [[AMSerialPort sharedPortList] 
serialPortsOfType:@kIOSerialBSDModemType];
// NSArray *ports = [[AMSerialPort sharedPortList] 
serialPortsOfType:(NSString*)CFSTR(kIOSerialBSDModemType)];

How do I do this in RubyCocoa?
I can try to hack around these for now, but I would prefer a more 
portable solution.

Is it possible to easily add IOKit or CoreFoundation support to RubyCocoa?
Or is it better to make an Obj-C bridge class in my project that 
interfaces with the AMSerialPort class?

Oh, and I tried to use the really old ruby SerialPort 
<http://ruby-serialport.rubyforge.org/> implementation, but 
multi-threading that to get serial input does not seem to work as 
well as the AMSerialPort class.

Thanks

Axel
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