When MacRuby's FFI support is more mature, declaring an FFI::Struct subclass like this will be another option.
class MapPoint < FFI::Struct
layout :row, :int, :col, :Int
end
You instantiate an FFI::Struct with a pointer. I'm hacking away on a Ruby interface to a C library, and I'm slinging around pointers, structs and unions with ease on MRI 1.8.6, 1.9.1 and JRuby.
Best,
Jeremy
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Eloy Duran
<eloy.de.enige@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
On Aug 5, 2009, at 5:31 PM, Clay Bridges wrote:
The google didn't yield much guidance on this. Before I started a
deep-dive on the MacRuby source, and/or the standard ruby way to
handle this sort of thing, I thought I would ask a couple of
questions:
1) Any easy advice?
Yes, use RubyCocoa
2) Is this different in MacRuby than in ruby proper?
RubyCocoa at least allows you to use BridgeSupport which would allow you to map these. Afaik MacRuby doesn't fully support it yet.
3) Any pointers into the MacRuby source that might help me?
BridgeSupport needs to fully implemented.
Keep in mind, MacRuby is not stable yet.
HTH,
Eloy