Dimitry, What I've done is created a reference counted class hierarchy to match part of the Cocoa framework. It's only partially done, but it allows Pascal code to be written to simplify interaction with native OSX frameworks and APIs like AppKit in the following ways:
Using NSWindow class as an example: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nswindow * TNSWindow mirrors NSWindow and uses an automatic reference counting scheme to automatically release objects when they are are no longer needed. * All methods and properties of NSWindow are provided by TNSWindow and there is no need to pass native objects as handles to functions. It's implicit in Self and the underlying handle is manged by TNSWindow -> TNSResponder -> TNSObject -> and ultimately TFrameworkObject. * It uses an object oriented hierarchy the same as the Apple frameworks, only translated to Pascal objects. That is you can pass a derived class to methods of other object methods which may expect any less specific class. * Other classes such as CGContext (TCGContext -> TFrameworkObject) are provided as well as other Apple frameworks classes, all translated to Pascal classes with all the same benefits as outlined above. My implementation isn't complete, which is to say I haven't wrapped every single Apple framework class in the manner described above. For the extremely limited amount of translations I did complete, I saw a big benefit in my own personal projects on OSX. Most notably the way of organizing code I outlined above allowed me to much more easily understand how to use Apple's frameworks, reduce errors with type safety and automatic object lifetime management, as well as aid in the discovery when combining Apple framework object to accomplish programming tasks. I expect if this were integrated into the Cocoa widgetset it would make development a bit easier. Certainly there is a lot of work involved in defining every Apple framework object in this way, but it provides a certain level of organization and usability that I at least feel makes a big difference when working with native Apple APIs.
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