Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] Preventing Sleep

[Marcelo A. <mar...@xf...>]

  Write (and implement) a category in ObjC or a new class and use it
from RubyCocoa.


2008/8/4 Allison Newman <dem...@ma...>:
> Hi everyone,
>
> OK, for those that don't religiously follow cocoadev, I just asked a question over there about how to stop my Mac from going to sleep.  The response was not exactly... ideal from the point of view of a RubyCocoa developer.  Apparently the answer is to use the following:
>
> UpdateSystemActivity(OverallAct);
>
> Which is a pure C function call, with the prototype being found in power.h
>
> My question is:  How do I best go about integrating this into a RubyCocoa app.  I have previously written C Extensions to Ruby, but that doesn't seem to be a particularly flexible/reuseable solution.  What is considered the best way of accessing this type of code, or better yet, has anyone already exposed this functionality for RubyCocoa?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help/guidance.
>
> Alli
>
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