On 10/15/09 6:34 AM, Timothy Stafford Larkin said: >I messed around with this problem for some time, before I gave up >trying to be clever and cast the pointer as an unsigned long. > > NSNumber *p = [NSNumber numberWithUnsignedLong:(unsigned > long)object]; > >The number can be added to a pasteboard. Or if dragging more than one >object, NSNumbers can be added to an NSArray, and the array written to >the pasteboard.
That seems quite dangerous, especially in a GC app. Creating such an NSNumber will not keep a strong reference to "object", and so it risks getting prematurely collected. If you do do this, better CFRetain the object first. -- ____________________________________________________________ Sean McBride, B. Eng s...@rogue-research.com Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com