Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] NSData.to_s returns some kind of hex dump, instead of the data!

[FUJIMOTO H. <hi...@im...>]

At Sat, 15 Mar 2003 18:14:25 -0500,
Hi,

Sam Roberts wrote:
> Hi, just started working with ruby cocoa, and am having a lot of fun.

> Why does OSX::NSData.to_s return a ruby String that looks like "<xxxxxx
> xxxxxx>" (where x are hex digits)? I didn't expect this:

NSObject#to_s (and NSData#to_s) is same as `NSData.description.cString'.

The following code snippet may be what you want except it is too verbose.

vcdata = OSX::ABAddressBook.sharedAddressBook.me.vCardRepresentation
enc = NSProprietaryStringEncoding   # specify an appropriate encoding.
str = OSX::NSString.alloc.initWithData_encoding( vcdata, enc )

or

str = ' ' * vcdata.length
vcdata.getBytes(str)
str

RubyCocoa is implemented like this currently. However, I recognize
that behavior of such implementation is not so good.

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FUJIMOTO Hisakuni