Re: [Rubycocoa-talk] online introduction to rubycocoa

[Jonathan P. <jp...@dc...>]

On 13 Jan 2006, at 9:40, Tim Burks wrote:
>
> I'm working on some documentation of various aspects of RubyCocoa,
> beginning with an introduction.  I've put the introduction online at
> http://www.rubycocoa.com and would welcome your comments and review.

Hi Tim,

I've had a quick read through - it looks very good. I think this will  
be a valuable resource for the community.

I have a few nit-picky comments below - feel free to ignore me :)

> irb(main):002:0> sound = OSX::NSSound.soundNamed "Submarine"

People who have installed a tryout of Photoshop 7 (and possibly other  
Adobe products of that era) will have a corrupt Submarine.aiff - I  
just tried that example and I heard most of the sound then a chirp of  
noise at the end. Possibly worth choosing a different sound just so  
people aren't put off :)

>     i = i.intValue() if i.class != Fixnum

A couple of things

   * having empty brackets doesn't seem very ruby-like - i.intValue
   * 'i === Numeric' rather than 'i.class != Fixnum'
   * instances of NSNumber will support to_i (see to_i method in  
oc_wrapper.rb),
     so you could do 'return i.to_i + j.to_i'

> OSX::ns_import :Client

I prefer OSX.ns_import (I like to think of methods with a dot), and  
use :: for constants.

Cheers,
Jonathan