Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] objc_method documentation?

[Nathaniel I. <nd...@bu...>]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Allison Newman <dem...@ma...> wrote:

> Nat,
> I can't help you with the bridge, but I'm guessing that Apple's Scripting
> Bridge documentation should be of interest in doing what you are trying to
> do.  If you haven't already looked at it, this may help:
>
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/RubyPythonCocoa/Articles/GenerateFrameworkMetadata.html#/
> /apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40005426
>
> As mentioned on that page, the manpage ('man BridgeSupport 5' in the
> terminal) also gives some important information.
>

Thanks very much for the suggestions. However, I'm not seeing the connection
between Apple's BridgeSupport infrastructure and RubyCocoa's "objc_method"
method. The BridgeSupport type-encoding syntax, which is XML, doesn't seem
to overlap with the 'B@:@@' syntax used by objc_method, as obliquely
referenced on that limechat.com page.

I've found a lot of references to objc_method in context of returning a
primitive value from a Ruby method to an Objective-C caller (e.g. <
http://tinyurl.com/4bornj>). That shouldn't rise to the level of requiring a
Ruby C extension -- objc_method appears to serve this exact purpose, I just
can't figure out what syntax it expects. I'd still appreciate any assistance
on that point.

Thanks,

  -nat