[MacRuby-devel] Is this the right list?

Eloy Duran eloy.de.enige at gmail.com
Tue Jan 13 10:00:15 PST 2009


Generally when you are creating a Cocoa application with Ruby, you'll  
want to use frameworks that use Cocoa idioms.
This holds especially true for async operations, such as working with  
sockets.

So in this case I take would look at http://code.google.com/p/cocoaasyncsocket/
This is used by, for instance, LimeChat (A RubyCocoa & MacRuby  
application).

But note that even with this framework, you might encounter MacRuby  
problems.
This is the other side of using young technologies.
If you can't deal with that right now, but would like to use Ruby, I  
would encourage you to take a look at RubyCocoa.

Cheers,
Eloy

On 13 jan 2009, at 18:01, Timothy McDowell wrote:

> Thanks a bunch, but I believe I'm going to have to switch frameworks/ 
> libraries. I believe I just read that opening TCPSockets causes  
> errors in MacRuby..
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:36 PM, John Shea <johnmacshea at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> textView seems rather tedious compared to textField to me.
>
> Here is what I do (which does work when the view is made not  
> editable):
>
> class Controller
> 	attr_writer :text_view #linked to the IB textView on your window
> 	
> 	def awakeFromNib
> 	  replace_all_range = NSRange.new(0, @text_view.textStorage.length)
> 	  @text_view.replaceCharactersInRange(replace_all_range,  
> withString:"a new string")
> 	end
>
> end
>
> I saw this originally when learning Ruby / Cocoa  in Brian Marick's  
> RubyCocoa book - which is available at the moment as a PDF (it has  
> not been released yet to paper I believe) from the Pragmatic  
> Programmers.
> Both Marick's and Hillegas's books are important reads for the  
> beginning (eg me) macruby programmer.
>
> Cheers,
> J
>
>
>
> On Jan 13, 2009, at 1:22 AM, Eloy Duran wrote:
>
>> How about @text_view.setString("foo") or as @text_view.string =  
>> "foo" ?
>>
>> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ApplicationKit/Classes/NSText_Class/Reference/Reference.html#/ 
>> /apple_ref/doc/uid/20000367-setString_
>>
>> - Eloy
>>
>> On 13 jan 2009, at 00:46, Timothy McDowell wrote:
>>
>>> Y'know what, that doesn't seem to work actually. No '<<' method,  
>>> and setCharacters/setWords works, but nothing shows up.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Timothy McDowell <tmcdowell at gmail.com 
>>> > wrote:
>>> Haha, I scoured that documentation for an hour! Thanks a bunch. ^_^
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Vincent Isambart <vincent.isambart at gmail.com 
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>> :textview is linked to an NSTextView object via InterfaceBuilder.  
>>> Now the purpose of this view is to work as the display for text  
>>> coming from a MUD (Multi-user domain/dungeon). I have it set to  
>>> noneditable but selectable. My above code doesn't work. I allow it  
>>> to be editable, and the code does work. Is there a way to prevent  
>>> user-editing but to allow my code to edit it?
>>>
>>> Extract from Apple's Objective-C insertText: documentation:
>>> This method is the entry point for inserting text typed by the  
>>> user and is generally not suitable for other purposes.  
>>> Programmatic modification of the text is best done by operating on  
>>> the text storage directly. Because this method pertains to the  
>>> actions of the user, the text view must be editable for the  
>>> insertion to work.
>>>
>>> You can do for instance
>>> @text_view.textStorage << 'my text'
>>> But be careful, text inserted like this ignores the current font  
>>> attributes of the text view. You have to add them yourself.
>>>
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>>>
>>> -- Thanks, 
>>> --Zonbi.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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