[Rubycocoa-talk] Cocoa-ized return values from methods

[Steven A. <st...@ne...>]

Hello,

I am writing a dictionary application in RubyCocoa.  I have an object  
that looks like this:

class DictDelegate < OSX::NSObject
     include OSX
      
ib_outlets :acceptsAction, :acceptsObject, :acceptsQuality, :affixPositi 
on,
                 :affixProduces, :comments, :definition, :examples, :sea 
rchBar,
                 :synonyms, :window, :word, :wordList, :wordtype, :condi 
tions

     def getFormValues
         # Return a hash of the values of the form.
         {'word'=>@word.stringValue.to_s,  
'wordtype'=>@wordtype.stringValue.to_s,
                     'definition'=>@definition.string.to_s,  
'comments'=>@comments.string.to_s,
                     'acceptsAction'=>@acceptsAction.state,  
'acceptsObject'=>@acceptsObject.state,
                     'acceptsQuality'=>@acceptsQuality.state,  
'affixPosition'=>@affixPosition.stringValue.to_s,
                     'affixProduces'=>@affixProduces.stringValue.to_s}
     end
end

When I call self.getFormValues, I do not get back a Ruby Hash, but  
rather a Cocoa NSCFDictionary.  Right before the return, it's a  
hash....but when it gets back, it's an NSCFDictionary.

It would be far more convenient for me to get back the actual object  
I returned.  The auto-conversion behavior is not convenient.  Is  
there a way to get around this?  Is this a bug?

I am running the current CVS version of rubycocoa.  I'm on Mac OS X  
Tiger 10.4.2 on a dual 2.5GHz with four GB of RAM.

steve