I've uploaded the first CamelBones 0.3 build to my site -
<http://www.dot-app.org> ;-)
Yep, it's here - the long-awaited CamelBones 0.3. Not quite ready for
prime time, but it builds cleanly (no warnings). Some things are not
working yet - passing and/or returning structures (NSPoint, NSRect,
etc.) is not yet working. Subclassing works to a point; you can subclass
an Objective-C class, and add new methods, but overriding the
superclass' methods doesn't work. There is only one included example.
I've only built the framework on 10.1 - you need to build the included
libffi first. GCC 3 includes libffi built-in, so you shouldn't need to
build it yourself if you're using 10.2 or newer; I haven't been able to
test anything but 10.1, however, so you'll probably need to change some
build settings.
On a more positive note, passing hash and array references as arguments
where NSDictionary and NSArray objects are expected is now supported. It
works from Objective-C, as well - see CBPerlDictionary.h and
CBPerlArray.h for more. All linked and registered Objective-C classes
are now wrapped automatically and available from Perl. Classes loaded
dynamically using NSBundle should be automatically wrapped, as well -
the code is there, but I haven't tested it.
If I haven't scared you away yet, and you'd like to test a work in
progress, participate in its further development, or just to talk about
it, please download this and join the -devel mailing list at
SourceForge - <http://sf.net/projects/camelbones/>. This is certainly a
good place to talk about using CB to build Cocoa apps, but I'm sure
there are plenty of folks here who aren't terribly interested in talking
about Objective-C, pointers, and SV's - oh, my.
I'm also going to check the code into CVS at SourceForge, and release
this file there as well. But, I've been hacking on this since early this
morning, SF's file release system is a pain, and I've got other plans
tomorrow...
sherm--
Heisenberg may have slept here.
