[PD] pd external that uses cocoa / objective C

[Rich E]

Hmmm, after hearing back from the Cocoa-dev mailing list that all of Cocoa's
Event handling code is based on Carbon (and is 64-bit compatible, at least
the Event Handling), I don't know if it is worth it to write the external in
ObjC (which I will probably do poorly at that, as it is my first attempt
with the language).  Anyways, Carbon is written in C, the WinTab API is
written in C, so introducing ObjC may turn out to be a hassle later on
instead of allowing future compatibility?

Well, thanks for the advice anyways.

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Rich E <rich.eakin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the advice.  I am not sure I understand how to get the callback
> functions for pd to interface with the cocoa API, but I'll give a crack at
> it later tonight and see how far I get (first time doing anything in
> obj-c).  For me, I don't really care about elegance as much as that it will
> do everything that I want it to do (and fast).
>
> Rich
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:54 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig <zmoelnig at iem.at>wrote:
>
>> Rich E wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I have been thinking of how to use cocoa in a pd external and I could
>> use
>> > some advice.  It has to be in Objective-C of course, and I see that
>> gridflow
>> > uses cocoa a little (format/quartz.m). Still, I am not understanding how
>> to
>> > combine the elements of a pd external (in C) with that of what I am
>> finding
>> > in cocoa example applications (in objective-c).  Will I just write the
>> > entire external in objective-c, or is there some specific way to use
>> obj-c
>> > syntax within a C source file?  Any tips or directs are thankfully
>> welcomed.
>>
>> you can mix C-code and ObjC-code just fine in your .m file (that is: you
>> can use C in ObjC; you cannot use ObjC in your C)
>>
>> so basically you write everything in ObjC, but the callback-functions
>> for Pd (which are written in C)
>> i guess there are more elegant ways to do it, but this is how i would do
>> it.
>>
>> fgmasdr
>> IOhannes
>>
>
>
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