[Rubycocoa-talk] RubyCocoa use with Directory Services

[Nathan M. <nm...@ma...>]

Greetings!

I'm trying to create a Ruby wrapper around the Directory Services API  
and noticed that it is one of the frameworks that has the Scripting  
Bridge metadata already exported in Leopard.  I'm trying to execute  
the dsFindDirNodes method but the 4th parameter is supposed to be a  
pointer to a long, and is technically an in-out parameter.  If I leave  
it out, it complains that there aren't enough parameters, and when I  
try to put it in, it complains that it can't convert a FixNum to a  
"^I" which I take is a pointer to a long.  I've verified from the  
metadata that this is what it is expecting, but I don't know how to  
pass a pointer to a long (or FixNum/BigNum since Ruby doesn't  
technically have a long).

I've seen that there is an "ObjcPtr" class, but that doesn't seem to  
work either.  On the ruby-cocoa site, it says that there should be  
documentation for all the frameworks that have metadata available, but  
it is not located in the specified place and the documentation  
generator that is included with the source is looking for the ADC  
Documentation folder from Tiger.  Does anyone know when the  
documentation generator is going to be updated for Leopard or any way  
to generate it in the meantime?

Thanks all.

Nathan Mellis
Application Developer
Mission Aviation Fellowship
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