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[Help-smalltalk] Re: [Pharo-project] [Esug-list] Google Summer Of Code 2
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Gilad Bracha |
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[Help-smalltalk] Re: [Pharo-project] [Esug-list] Google Summer Of Code 2010 news!!! |
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Sat, 6 Mar 2010 06:54:17 -0800 |
On Mar 6, 2010, at 6:41 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 03/06/2010 02:22 PM, Lawson English wrote:
>> Does the CObject FFI allow you to do what F_script does and examine the
>> entire object tree written in Cocoa? That would at least for Macs, give
>> you a full blown GUI external to the Squeak desktop.
We've done this using aliens in Newspeak (see ObjectiveCAline and friends). To
do a real GUI is more involved, because of MacOS threading issues (which thread
is in control etc.). We hope to fix this in time, and of course provide a fully
native binding for the Brazil/Hopscotch GUI on macs, as we do on Windows.
>
> You _can_ write an Objective-C binding using CObject (as in, it's been done).
> The painful part is converting NSArray <-> Array and NSString <-> String.
>
> However, nice-looking bindings will always have a part written in C that will
> be VM-dependent, which is why I put this project last. It is much less
> useful than it looks.
Inteoperating smoothly with the rest of the world is very useful.
Cheers, Gilad
[Help-smalltalk] Re: [squeak-dev] Re: [Esug-list] Google Summer Of Code 2010 news!!!, Julian Fitzell, 2010/03/06
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