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

Steve Clarke steve at sclarkes.me.uk
Fri Feb 24 11:50:06 PST 2012


That does indeed seem to fix it.  Thanks.

I'm still confused though because I have lots of stuff that used to work and that uses id_sender.  Did something change in rb_nibtool?

Steve

On 24 Feb 2012, at 19:39, Kevin Poorman wrote:

> 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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