[Cocoa-sharp] Patch for TableColumn

Sun Sep 10 02:00:34 EDT 2006

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give me a test case, if you would

Edward Carr wrote:
> One bug that I found occurs in the TableColumn class. Note the
> following code the way it exists today:
>
> public Cocoa.Object Identifier { get { return (Cocoa.Object)
> Native.NativeToManaged ((IntPtr) ObjCMessaging.objc_msgSend
> (NativeObject, "identifier", typeof (IntPtr))); } }
>
> If your identifier is a string, the call to objc_msgSend will
> return you a pointer to a Cocoa.String object. Calling the
> NativeToManager however, will convert this from a Cocoa.String to a
> System.String. Therefore, we will want to change the return value
> for Identifer to be System.Object.
>
> Edward Carr
>
> -----Original Message----- From: C.J. Adams-Collier
> [mailto:cjcollier at colliertech.org] Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006
> 10:46 AM To: Edward Carr Cc: 'Martyn West';
> cocoa-sharp at lists.ximian.com Subject: Re: [Cocoa-sharp] Cocoa-sharp
> Digest, Vol 16, Issue 1
>
> On Fri, 2006-08-09 at 10:07 -0400, Edward Carr wrote:
>> Martyn,
>>
>> Other than struggling with the Mac getting it to do what I want
>> it to do, things are coming along very nicely. I'm using .NET 2.0
>> to develop
> reusable
>> business logic libraries under both Windows and the Mac. These
>> work great; I'm impressed with how far Mono has come along.
>>
>> Unfortunately, I'm doing a lot of UI work under the Mac which has
>> required that I extend the Cocoa# library. I've had to create
>> about 12 new Cocoa# classes, which I would like to add to the
>> Cocoa# library itself.
>
> Please submit a patch and unit test to this list.  I'll see that it
> gets in if all tests pass.
>
>> I also had to fix a bug with one of the Cocoa# libraries, only to
>> find that I
> couldn't
>> build the library. So right now, my Mac UI code has quite a few
>> calls to
> the
>> ObjectiveC wrapper classes, since you can't extend the Cocoa#
>> classes directly with the same name, and expect to get the
>> correct instance of the object when calling an ObjectiveC method.
>>
>>
>> Other than the messiness of the UI code on the Mac, I am happy
>> with using Mono on the Mac with Cocoa#. The Cocoa# library itself
>> is pretty much in
> its
>> infancy and requires a bit of work, but enough of the core
>> functionality
> is
>> there that I'm confident in using it at this point.
>
> This is great news.  Nice to have user report!
>
>> I haven't seen forms closing themselves without some sort of
>> ObjectiveC exception occurring. Unfortunately, trying to trap
>> these has been a huge pain in the butt, so I've put each method
>> within an exception handler, and wrote any exceptions straight
>> out to a file. This has allowed me to find
> UI
>> issues that don't behave the way I expected them to.
>
> Can you write an example?  This would be invaluable for new users.
>
>> Edward Carr
>
> Cheers,
>
> C.J.
>
>> -----Original Message----- From:
>> cocoa-sharp-bounces at lists.ximian.com
>> [mailto:cocoa-sharp-bounces at lists.ximian.com] On Behalf Of Martyn
>> West Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 5:51 AM To:
>> cocoa-sharp at lists.ximian.com Subject: Re: [Cocoa-sharp]
>> Cocoa-sharp Digest, Vol 16, Issue 1
>>
>> I'm having problems building Cocoa# aswell (the version from SVN
>> too). I get: You need to install mono>-1.1.9
>>
>> I have mono 1.1.17.1 installed. Is something out of date?
>>
>>
>> Am just starting a large cross-platform desktop application and
>> really
> need
>> to get the strategy sorted for OS X. The Windows one is a .NET
>> 2.0 GUI talking to a .NET 1.1 framework which is coming along
>> nicely.
>>
>> The original idea was to use Mono and Cocoa# but initial
>> investigations
> were
>> not promising - like forms closing themselves after receiving a
>> second event... Current plan is to write Objective-C frontend and
>> use ObjC# but there's no docs or anything so is proving
>> difficult.
>>
>> Has anyone actually written anything for the Mac in .NET that's
>> stable?
>>
>> Cheers, Martyn
>>
>>
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>> 1. Compiling Cocoa# (Edward Carr)
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>> Message: 1 Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 10:17:56 -0400 From: "Edward
>> Carr" <ecarr at lightshipinc.com> Subject: [Cocoa-sharp] Compiling
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>> I'm having problems compiling Cocoa# under Mono 1.1.17.1 on the
>> Macintosh.
> I
>> had the same problem compiling with Mono 1.1.16 as well. If I
>> attempt to build it, I get the following error:
>>
>>
>>
>> Mach.cs(161,18): error CS0131: The left-hand side of an
>> assignment or mutating operation must be a variable, property or
>> indexer
>>
>>
>>
>> I found one reference to this issue on the web at
>>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net/msg18924.ht
>
>> ml which lists it as an issue with Fink. However, I'm not using
>> Fink.
>>
>>
>>
>> If I compile the code under Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, I don't
>> get a compilation error, so I'm wondering if the issue is more
>> with Mono than
> with
>> Cocoa#.
>>
>>
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
>>
>>
>>
>> Edward Carr
>>
>>
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