Re: [MacRuby-devel] MacRuby on Mavericks

10 Nov 2013


      Isn’t it enough to have a Class.h file as company of the Ruby.rb file like:
//  AppDelegate.h

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@interface AppDelegate : NSWindowController {

IBOutlet NSWindow       *window;
IBOutlet NSButton       *homeButton;
. . . etc etc
}

- (IBAction)loadStore:(id)sender;
- (IBAction)sortContacts:(id)sender;
. . . etc etc
    
@end


At least the IB is triggered by this but I admit i still don't have a big app running on Mavericks :)

cheers, Rob


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Subject: Re: [MacRuby-devel] MacRuby on Mavericks
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On Nov 7, 2013, at 9:07 AM, Joshua Ballanco <jballanc@gmail.com> wrote:
...
* MacRuby integration with Xcode relies on rb-nibtool, but the Xcode team has repeatedly signaled (not so subtly) that they are not interested in keeping this shim working.
I assume that rb-nibtool scans rb files to identify possible IBOutlet and IBAction targets. If this is it's only function then I would not miss it if it goes away. I have discovered that it is easy to define IBOutlet and IBAction targets in Objective-C files without recoding any ruby code into Objective-C. The results are much better because the linkage and error messages are very fast while the scanning of ruby files gets very slow on a large project.
To avoid adding a lot of files, I created a single Objective-C .h and .m file for each of my nib files, including the main, giving it a corresponding name.
//  MainWindow.h
//  RiceCNC
//
//  Created by Robert Rice on 11/9/13.
//  Copyright (c) 2013 Robert Rice. All rights reserved.
//
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
@interface AppDelegate : NSObject
@property (weak) IBOutlet id template_menu;
@property (weak) IBOutlet id example_menu;
- (IBAction)makeNewMachine:(id)sender;
- (IBAction)makeNewEngine:(id)sender;
@end
//  MainWindow.m
//  RiceCNC
//
//  Created by Robert Rice on 11/9/13.
//  Copyright (c) 2013 Robert Rice. All rights reserved.
//
#import "MainWindow.h"
@implementation AppDelegate
@synthesize template_menu;
@synthesize example_menu;
- (IBAction)makeNewMachine:(id)sender {};
- (IBAction)makeNewEngine:(id)sender {};
@end
The IBActions are easy. I simply define empty methods for my actions. MacRuby will replace the empty methods with the ruby methods.
For each IBOutlet, I define a C property, remove the attr_writer or attr_accessor from my ruby class, then reference the property from my ruby class using the dot syntax.
For this example, I changed @template_menu to self.template_menu and @example_menu to self.example_menu:
# AppDelegate.rb
# MacCNC
#
# Created by Robert Rice on 3/10/12.
# Copyright 2012 Rice Audio. All rights reserved.
class AppDelegate
#	attr_writer :template_menu, :example_menu
def init
      if super
#			ErrorLog.instance.debug( "AppDelegate init" )
      end
      @pdf_window_controller			= nil
      @mail_bridge_window_controller	= nil
self
  end
def awakeFromNib
#		ErrorLog.instance.debug( "AppDelegate awakeFromNib" )
      bundle	= NSBundle.mainBundle
engines	= bundle.pathsForResourcesOfType( "engine", inDirectory:"Templates" )
      engines.each do | path |
      	title	= path.split( '/' ).last.split( '.' ).first
      	item	= self.template_menu.addItemWithTitle( title, action:"open_engine_template:", keyEquivalent:"" )
      	item.setTarget( self )
      end
examples	= bundle.pathsForResourcesOfType( "cnc", inDirectory:"Examples" )
      examples.each do | path |
      	title	= path.split( '/' ).last.split( '.' ).first
      	item	= self.example_menu.addItemWithTitle( title, action:"open_document_template:", keyEquivalent:"" )
      	item.setTarget( self )
      end
  end
def makeNewMachine( sender )
      makeNewDocument( "Machine" )
  end
def makeNewEngine( sender )
      makeNewDocument( "Engine" )
  end
def makeNewDocument( type )
      ErrorLog.instance.warn( "makeNewDocument #{ type }" )
nserror		= Pointer.new( :object )
      controller	= NSDocumentController.sharedDocumentController
      document	= controller.makeUntitledDocumentOfType( type, error:nserror )
      if document
      	controller.addDocument( document )
      	document.makeWindowControllers
      	document.showWindows
else
      	ErrorLog.instance.error( "Error creating new #{ type } Document" )
      end
document
  end
def open_engine_template( sender )
      open_file( NSBundle.mainBundle.pathForResource( sender.title, ofType:"engine", inDirectory:"Templates" ) )
  end
def open_machine_template( sender )
      open_file( NSBundle.mainBundle.pathForResource( sender.title, ofType:"machine", inDirectory:"Templates" ) )
  end
def open_document_template( sender )
      open_file( NSBundle.mainBundle.pathForResource( sender.title, ofType:"cnc", inDirectory:"Examples" ) )
  end
def open_file( path )
      url			= NSURL.fileURLWithPath( path )
      nserror		= Pointer.new( :object )
      NSDocumentController.sharedDocumentController.openDocumentWithContentsOfURL( url,
      	display:true, error:nserror )
  end
end

Re: [MacRuby-devel] MacRuby on Mavericks

rob ista