Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] setFont in NSTextField

[Eric C. <ech...@gm...>]

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:04 AM,  <sub...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> i'm a ruby/rails-developer, coming from linux/win.
> A few days ago i heard about rubycocoa and... bougth a mac emidiately.

That's interesting! My interest in NeXTSTEP/OpenStep/GNUstep/Cocoa was
a factor in my getting a Mac, but only a small one.

You should also be aware of MacRuby <http://www.macruby.org/>, which
appears to be on track to replace RubyCocoa some time in the future. I
don't know much about it, but it's based on Ruby 1.9 and its
interpreter and libraries are written directly on Cocoa so there is a
tighter coupling between the two. It also supports Objective-C-like
named arguments instead of the ugly underscores separating parts of
the selector, as in fontWithName_size_. (It appears to extend Ruby's
syntax to do so; because of this and the other peculiarities of
MacRuby I wonder to what extent it really is Ruby rather than a
different language.)

RubyCocoa used to use key/value hashes for arguments; does anyone know
why they got rid of those in favor of underscores?

> This was my first contact to objective-c, cocoa, etc. - so i know pretty much nothing (I read a oreilly book about objective-c 2.0 - but that didn't help me with my problem).
>
> How do i set the fontfamily/fontname for a NSTextField.
> I tried it in the interfae builder and in my controller_class.rb - with no result. (tried setFont < NSTextField < NSControl - think i didn't get the syntax right)
>
> Thanx in advance for every little hint.
>
> subverse