[MacRuby-devel] Xcode: rb_nibtool no longer picking up actions

Kevin Poorman kjp at brightleafsoftware.com
Fri Feb 24 11:39:54 PST 2012


I believe the parameter for an action method must be named "sender" not id_sender ?

-Pkj

On Feb 24, 2012, at 2:33 PM, Steve Clarke wrote:

> Sorry- correction to previous post: When the Obj-C header is deleted IB does still show the action close_me.  However it is flagged as an error saying that close_me is not defined on AppDelegate.
> 
> Steve
> 
> On 24 Feb 2012, at 19:22, Steve Clarke wrote:
> 
>> Here's the code.   It couldn't be any simpler:
>> 
>> 
>> class AppDelegate
>>   attr_accessor :window, :prop1	, :prop3
>>   
>>   def close_me(id_sender)
>>     puts ("close_me invoked")
>>   end
>>   def applicationDidFinishLaunching(a_notification)
>>     # Insert code here to initialize your application
>>     puts ("finished launching")
>>   end
>> end
>> 
>> This doesn't work in 4.2 either.  I can't say for sure it worked earlier in 4.2 becasue I only just created it as a trivial case.  What I do know is that a more complex app delegate stopped working in 4.2 for no apparent reason.
>> 
>> In relation to the example above, I tried creating an Object-C class that contained only an explicit IBAction for the close_me method.  That worked fine and the app ran as expected.  When I removed the .h file,  IB still showed all was OK. i.e. the close_me action was shown together with the id of the sender.  When I deleted the link from the sender the action was no longer shown.
>> 
>> Hope this makes some sense.
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>> 
>> On 24 Feb 2012, at 18:58, Matt Aimonetti wrote:
>> 
>>> Can you show your code, was it working in 4.2?
>>> 
>>> - Matt
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Steve Clarke <steve at sclarkes.me.uk> wrote:
>>> No,  I'd already read earlier comments about the block syntax.  I can't get actions recognised at all, even in the most trivial cases.  If everyone else is OK I might just be doing something stupid.
>>> 
>>> Steve
>>> 
>>> On 24 Feb 2012, at 18:43, Kevin Poorman wrote:
>>> 
>>> > There is a known problem, (at least It's known to me...) with rb_nibtool and certain forms of ruby block syntax.
>>> >
>>> > Specifically, multi-line {} syntax causes it to fail. I've run into this with the dispatch gem doing things like
>>> >
>>> > Dispatch::Job.new {
>>> >       #some expensive op
>>> > }
>>> >
>>> > that code, while ruby 1.9.2/3 kosher, causes the nibtool to bomb.  However,
>>> >
>>> > Dispatch::Job.new do
>>> >       #some expensive op
>>> > end
>>> >
>>> > works just fine. Does your code use {'s or begin/end ?
>>> >
>>> > -Pkj
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Feb 24, 2012, at 1:36 PM, Steve Clarke wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> I've been following the discussions about getting Xcode 4.3 to find rb_nibtool.  The symlink works for me.  However it seems to deal OK with outlets but is not working at all for received actions - even in the simplest cases.
>>> >>
>>> >> What may be interesting is that even before I installed 4.3 it stopped recognising actions in 4.2.  As far as I'm aware I changed nothing in my setup at this time, so I wonder if it's an Apple Software update that has caused the problem?
>>> >>
>>> >> At present I'm stuck and can't get actions to work in 4.2 or 4.3 even though rb_nibtool is being invoked in both cases.  I know because it successfully recognises any change to outlets.
>>> >>
>>> >> I'm using the nightly build from last night (dated 24th Feb).
>>> >>
>>> >> Steve
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